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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Mater Res A. 2016 Jan 11;104(4):917–927. doi: 10.1002/jbm.a.35629

FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 2

HDG-NPs release nucleic acid cargo more efficiently than non-HDG-NPs. FRET signal is used to track nucleic acid release kinetics where loss of FRET is indicative of nucleic acid release. At 5:1 N:P ratio, HDG-NPs released ~40% more dsDNA at 24 h than non-HDG-NPs. Increasing the N:P ratio reduced the impact of the HDG chemistry, likely due to the presence of excess cationic charge.