Modified cell penetrating peptides for efficient gene transfer in vitro and in vivo

The efficient delivery of DNA is of great importance for therapeutic applications such as gene therapy, gene-editing and cell programming. However, the phospholipid bilayer of the cell membrane acts as an impenetrable barrier to nucleic acids and therefore a gene must be coupled to an intracellular...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Osman, Gizem
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41863/