"Binding of Cationic alpha-Helical Peptides to Plasmid DNA and Their Gene Transfer Abilities into Cells."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Biological Chemistry, "Polycationic reagents such as cationic lipids and poly-L-lysine are widely used for gene transfer into cells in vitro and show promise as vectors for in vivo gene therapy applications as nonviral gene transfer techniques. We have developed a novel transfection method using cationic amphiphilic alpha-helical oligopeptides with repeated sequences. Oligopeptide has the advantages of being easily designed and modified because of its simple structure. In this study, we synthesized five kinds of peptides of which the total chain length and the width of the hydrophobic region were changed. The...

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