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. 1979 Jul;76(7):3348–3352. doi: 10.1073/pnas.76.7.3348

Entrapment of a bacterial plasmid in phospholipid vesicles: potential for gene transfer.

R T Fraley, C S Fornari, S Kaplan
PMCID: PMC383822  PMID: 386338

Abstract

Entrapment of pBR322 DNA within liposomes was demonstrated by (i) its comigration with liposomes on Sepharose 4B columns, (ii) resistance of its biological activity to DNase digestion, and (iii) identification of plasmid DNA on agarose gels after lipid extraction. The biological activity of the liposome-entrapped plasmid was determined by transformation assays. The incubation of intact liposomes, containing entrapped pBR322, with competent Escherichia coli cells in the standard transformation mixture resulted in the appearance of tetracycline-resistant colonies at a frequency of 1% of the control frequency. Importantly, this frequency was unaffected by the addition of DNase to the incubation mixture, whereas transformation by free pBR322 DNA was totally eliminated after treatment with DNase.

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