Figure 7.
Confocal microscope images of the free uptake of fluorescein-labelled CPP conjugates (green) into HeLa cells (nuclei stained red). (A) Effect of additional equivalents of Tat peptide on uptake of 2.5 μM Tat-Cys-Oligo B, 5 h. (B) Effect of additional equivalents of Penetratin peptide on uptake of 2.5 μM Penetratin-Cys-Oligo B, 5 h. (C) Lipofectamine 2000 delivery of 0.5 μM oligo B, 3 h. Note here the nuclear localization seen (white arrows) in addition to cytosolic uptake.