Efficient gene transfer into silkworm larval tissues by a combination of sonoporation and lipofection
Efficient gene transfer into silkworm larval tissues by a combination of sonoporation and lipofection
复制标题
DOI:
10.1016/j.cellbi.2005.07.007
复制
发表时间:
2005-11-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Kusakabe, T
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Lee, JM;Takahashi, M;Kusakabe, T
Sonoporation (ultrasound treatment) provides a new and attractive nonviral way of in vivo gene transfer. To access the applicability of this method to the silkworm, Bombyx mori, we have compared the efficiencies of gene transfer by means of lipofection (using an appropriate agent, PDD111), sonoporation (ditto, FluoroGene (TM)), and lipofection followed by sonoporation. By these methods, a luciferase expression plasmid was found to be markedly transferred into the haemocoel of newly ecdysed fifth instar silkworm larvae, and also into other tissues although with lower rates compared with the haemocoel. In terms of luciferase activity, the efficiencies of transgene by lipofection plus sonoporation were approximately 6 (hemocytes), 20 (silk glands), 8 (midgut), 38 (fat body), 10 (Malpighian tubules), 33 (ovaries), and 16 (testes) times as high as those by lipofection or sonoporation alone. These results demonstrated that the present method is useful to introduce the exogenous DNA into insect organs in vivo. (c) 2005 International Federation for Cell Biology. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.