Design of Hybrid Lipid/Retroviral-Like Particle Gene Delivery Vectors

Vectors for Gene Delivery

Gene therapy bases its rationale on the transfer of genetic components (genes or fragments thereof) into somatic cells, with the aim of preventing, correcting, or healing various types of disorders. After this introductory sentence you expect us to start telling you some of the marvellous achievements in setting up the tools that allow this transfer. However, before entering into the intricate ...

design and development of a series of recombinant fusion vectors for targeted cancer gene delivery

Targeted synthetic gene delivery vectors.

Synthetic gene delivery vehicles have made significant progress in the past decade in demonstrating strong potential for targeted delivery to specific cells, low toxicity and immunogenicity and large carrying capacity. However, significant advances must still be made to increase the efficiency of both polymer and lipid vehicles. Furthermore, techniques to generate more effective targeting moiet...

Virus-like particles as drug delivery vectors.

Virus-like particles (VLPs) assemble spontaneously during the viral cycle or in heterologous systems during expression of viral structural protein. Depending on the complexity of the VLPs, they can be obtained by expression in prokaryotic or eukaryotic expression system from the suitable recombinant vectors, or formed in cell-free conditions. Moreover, they can be built from proteins of a singl...

Rationally Designed Synthetic Vectors for Gene Delivery

Vector development is one of the most important challenges facing the successful use of genes for treatment of diseases. Although chemically produced vectors offer distinct advantages over biological systems such as viruses, there are still some hurdles that have to be overcome before synthetic gene delivery vectors can be successfully implemented. This brief review discusses the biological bar...