Recent Insights in Nucleic Acid and Protein Delivery
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2022) | Viewed by 5349
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nucleic acids and proteins are subjects to natural trafficking into and out of cells and nuclei. The involved systems are highly specialized structures, such as vesicles and microvesicles. Delivery of nucleic acids and proteins has also attracted intense interest from scientists in basic research laboratories, researchers in R&D enterprises, and from pharmaceutical labs for drug delivery. Since the pioneering works by Griffith et al. (1928) and Avery et al. (1943) on the role of nucleic acids in inheritance and trait transmission, scientists have developed a variety of methods for nucleic acid delivery. The past two decades revealed that under certain conditions, delivery of proteins creates less risk of changing cell genome integrity. Although a variety of carriers for nucleic acids and, to a lower extent, for protein delivery, have been developed since the times of Griffith and Avery, further work in the field is still needed.
This Special Issue focuses on the advancement and analysis of different aspects of the systems for nucleic acids and protein delivery that have been achieved and still have to be reached. Both review manuscripts and original research articles are invited to bring the freshest views in this field of biology and experimental medicine.
Prof. Dr. Aleksander L. Sieron
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cross-membrane transport
- delivery systems
- nucleic acids
- proteins
- vectors
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