Salt ions and related parameters affect PEI–DNA particle size and transfection efficiency in Chinese hamster ovary cells

Transfection efficiency is directly associated with the expression level and quantity of recombinant protein after the transient transfection of animal cells. The transfection process can be influenced by many still-unknown factors, so it is valuable to study the precise mechanism and explore these...

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Published in:Cytotechnology (Dordrecht) 2015-01, Vol.67 (1), p.67-74
Main Authors: Sang, Yunxia, Xie, Kui, Mu, Yubin, Lei, Yun, Zhang, Baohong, Xiong, Sheng, Chen, Yantian, Qi, Nianmin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biochemistry
Biomedicine
Biotechnology
Chemistry
Chemistry and Materials Science
Cytomegalovirus
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
Efficiency
Endosomes
Flow cytometry
Gene transfer
Genes
Original Research
Ovaries
Particle size
Plasmids
Polyethyleneimine
Proteins
Sodium chloride
Transfection
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Summary:Transfection efficiency is directly associated with the expression level and quantity of recombinant protein after the transient transfection of animal cells. The transfection process can be influenced by many still-unknown factors, so it is valuable to study the precise mechanism and explore these factors in gene delivery. Polyethylenimine (PEI) is considered to have high transfection efficiency and endosome-disrupting capacity. Here we aimed to investigate optimal conditions for transfection efficiency by setting different parameters, including salt ion concentration, DNA/PEI ratio, and incubation time. We examined the PEI–DNA particle size using a Malvern particle size analyzer and assessed the transfection efficiency using flow cytometry in Chinese hamster ovary-S cells. Salt ions, higher amounts of PEI tended to improve the aggregation of PEI–DNA particles and the particle size of PEI–DNA complexes and the transfection efficiency were increased. Besides, the particle size was also found to benefit from longer incubation time. However, the transfection efficiency increased to maximum of 68.92 % at an incubation time of 10 min, but decreased significantly thereafter to 23.71 %, when incubating for 120 min ( P  
ISSN:0920-9069
1573-0778
DOI:10.1007/s10616-013-9658-z