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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 14.
Published in final edited form as: Biomacromolecules. 2011 Jan 14;12(2):269–289. doi: 10.1021/bm100928x

Figure 17.

Figure 17

Schematic of (KH)6-FGF2 fusion-protein mediated gene transfection. (i) Nucleic acid condensed by the positively charged fusion protein, (ii) vector recognition at the FGFR, (iii) internalization by receptor-mediated endocytosis , (iv) endosomal escape by proton-sponge mechanism, and (v) nuclear trafficking ensuing in transgene expression. Reprinted with permission from reference 114. Copyright 200- Elsevier.