Polycations have been successfully used as gene transfer vehicles both in vitro and in vivo; however, their cytotoxicity has been associated with increasing molecular weight. Polymers that can be rapidly degraded after internalization are typically better tolerated by mammalian cells compared to their non-degradable counterparts. Here, we report the use of a dibromomaleimide-alkyne (DBM-alkyne)...

Let Dn denote the n-punctured disk in the complex plane, where the punctures are on the real axis. An n-braid α is said to be reducible if there exists an essential curve system C in Dn, called a reduction system of α, such that α ∗ C = C where α ∗ C denotes the action of the braid α on the curve system C. A curve system C in Dn is said to be standard if each of its components is isotopic to a ...

Let (M ;⊆) and (L ;⊆) be the lattices of additive induced-hereditary properties of graphs and additive hereditary properties of graphs, respectively. A property R∈Ma (∈ L) is called a minimal reducible bound for a property P∈Ma (∈ L) if in the interval (P;R) of the lattice M (L) there are only irreducible properties. The set of all minimal reducible bounds of a property P∈Ma in the lattice M we...