Transfection types, methods and strategies: a technical review

PeerJ

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Zhi Xiong Chong¹  Swee Keong Yeap²  Wan Yong Ho¹ 

[1] School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham Malaysia;China-ASEAN College of Marine Sciences, Xiamen University Malaysia

关键词: Methods;    Nucleic acids;    Controls;    Efficiency;    Chemicals;    Transfection;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.11165

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

Transfection is a modern and powerful method used to insert foreign nucleic acids into eukaryotic cells. The ability to modify host cells’ genetic content enables the broad application of this process in studying normal cellular processes, disease molecular mechanism and gene therapeutic effect. In this review, we summarized and compared the findings from various reported literature on the characteristics, strengths, and limitations of various transfection methods, type of transfected nucleic acids, transfection controls and approaches to assess transfection efficiency. With the vast choices of approaches available, we hope that this review will help researchers, especially those new to the field, in their decision making over the transfection protocol or strategy appropriate for their experimental aims.

【 授权许可】

CC BY