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ArticleBioscience reports2015

siRNA suppression of hTERT using activatable cell-penetrating peptides in hepatoma cells.

Hua Li, Jiwen He, Huimin Yi, Guoan Xiang, Kaiyun Chen, Binsheng Fu, Yang Yang, Guihua Chen

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Article in Bioscience reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Functional peptides for siRNA delivery.Advanced drug delivery reviews · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Hua Li*Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Third Affiliated hospital, Sun Yat-san University, Guangzhou 510630, China.
Jiwen He*Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Third Affiliated hospital, Sun Yat-san University, Guangzhou 510630, China.
Huimin Yi*Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Third Affiliated hospital, Sun Yat-san University, Guangzhou 510630, China.
Guoan Xiang†Department of General Surgery, Guangdong No. 2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou 510317, China.
Kaiyun Chen†Department of General Surgery, Guangdong No. 2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou 510317, China.
Binsheng Fu*Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Third Affiliated hospital, Sun Yat-san University, Guangzhou 510630, China.
Yang Yang*Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Third Affiliated hospital, Sun Yat-san University, Guangzhou 510630, China.
Guihua Chen*Department of Hepatic Surgery, the Third Affiliated hospital, Sun Yat-san University, Guangzhou 510630, China.
Sun Yat-sen University · CNGuangdong Provincial People's Hospital · CNThird Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Activatable cell-penetrating peptides (aCPPs) allow non-viral, low cytotoxic and selective delivery of compounds into target cells for cancer therapy. In tumour cells, up-regulation of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) frequently occurs and is being considered as a target in cancer diagnosis and treatment. siRNA sequence that target hTERT mRNA can silence the gene and reduce hTERT protein expression to reduce cell proliferation and inhibit cell growth. In our study, we tested a matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MPP2) aCPP in delivering hTERT siRNA into hepatocellular carcinoma cells (SMMC-7721) to silence the hTERT gene. Cultured SMMC-7721 cells were transfected with a complex of aCPPs and hTERT-specific siRNA-encoding or control plasmids. Compared with cells treated with the complex of control plasmid-CPPs, cells treated with the hTERT-specific siRNA-encoding plasmid-CPP complex had a prolonged G1-phase, but a shorter G2/S-phase, indicating a G1-arrest. Treatment with the hTERT-specific siRNA resulted in a significant decrease (by 26%; P<0.05) in hTERT mRNA levels. The aCPPs tested in this study provides a non-viral delivery of siRNA into cancer cells to silence target genes in cancer therapy.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, HepatocellularCell Line, TumorCell-Penetrating PeptidesDown-RegulationGene Expression Regulation, EnzymologicGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansLiver NeoplasmsMatrix Metalloproteinase 2Neoplasm ProteinsRNA, Small InterferingTelomeraseTransfectionCell-Penetrating PeptidesMatrix Metalloproteinase 2MMP2 protein, humanNeoplasm ProteinsRNA, Small InterferingTelomeraseTERT protein, human

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PMID25671640
PMCPMC4370094
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