Abstract: The invention provides polyamine derivatives, a use of the polyamine derivatives for the transfection of polyanions into cells, and a method of transfecting cells with a polyanion, comprising mixing said polyanion with a polyamine derivative e.g. in a buffer and treating said cells with the mixture obtained in the previous step.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 2, 2013
Publication date:
October 1, 2015
Applicant:
Lipocalyx GmbH
Inventors:
Steffen Panzner, Christian Reinsch, Volkmar Wendisch, Christina Dreher
Abstract: Nucleic acids comprising a nucleic acid moiety and two or more transfection enhancer elements (TEE's) according to the general formula (I): Hydrophobic moiety—pH-responsive hydrophilic moiety, wherein said pH sensitive hydrophilic moiety of said TEE is independently a weak acid having a pka of between 4 and 6.5 or is a zwitterionic structure comprising a combination of acidic groups with weak basis having a pKa of between 4.5 and 7.