Figure 7.
High transfection efficiency was observed in wild-type HK-2 cells for crotamine-mediated gene delivery and with reduced transfection in Synd-1 deficient HK-2 cells. Fluorescence confocal images of green fluorescent reporter gene expression in wild-type human PTEC cells (HK-2) (a–c) and Synd-1 KD cells (d–f) transfected by crotamine-mediated gene delivery. Nuclei stained with DAPI (in blue), GFP fluorescence (in green). Merged images (c,f). Bar = 50 μm.