RRC ID 78771
Author Yoshida T, Yamasaki K, Tadagaki K.
Title Caspase inhibition improves viability and efficiency of liposomal transfection.
Journal Sci Rep
Abstract High transfection efficiency is the most important point for experiments of DNA and RNA introduction into cells. Decrease of cell viability during the transfection procedure is a crucial issue, resulting in transfection failure. However, the mechanism underlying cell growth inhibition has not been fully elucidated. Lipofection is frequently used for transfection experiments, whereases, depending on cell type, it causes a decrease in cell viability. The present study demonstrates here that a potent pan-caspase inhibitor Q-VD-OPh blocked cell death during the lipofection, indicating apoptosis was induced in lipofection. Moreover, Q-VD-OPh drastically increased transfected cells. This method provides easier and more effective transfection system of lipofection and may be useful for transfection of not only cell lines but also clinical uses such as gene therapy and nucleic acids vaccine.
Volume 13(1)
Pages 21868
Published 2023-12-10
DOI 10.1038/s41598-023-49027-y
PII 10.1038/s41598-023-49027-y
PMID 38072861
PMC PMC10711006
MeSH Apoptosis Caspase Inhibitors / pharmacology Caspases* / genetics Liposomes* / pharmacology Transfection
Resource
Human and Animal Cells HeLa