Entrapment of nucleic acids in liposomes

被引:118
作者
Monnard, PA [1 ]
Oberholzer, T [1 ]
Luisi, PL [1 ]
机构
[1] ETH ZENTRUM,INST POLYMERE,CH-8092 ZURICH,SWITZERLAND
来源
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES | 1997年 / 1329卷 / 01期
关键词
liposome; encapsulation; nucleic acid; salt effect; CD spectroscopy;
D O I
10.1016/S0005-2736(97)00066-7
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The entrapment efficiency of three main methods used in the literature for the encapsulation of nucleic acids in liposomes were studied using 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) liposomes. In particular the reverse phase method, the dehydration/rehydration method, and the freeze/thawing method were compared to each other under standardised conditions, i.e. using in every case the same concentration of guest molecules (DNA, tRNA and ATP as low molecular weight analogue) and equally extruded liposomes. The percentage of entrapment strictly referred to the material localized inside the liposomes, i.e. particular care was devoted to ruling out the contribution of the nucleic acid material bound to the outer surface of the liposomes: this was eliminated by extensive enzymatic digestion prior to column chromatography. Depending on the conditions used, the percentage of the entrapped material varied between 10 and 54% of the initial amount. Further, the encapsulation efficiency was markedly affected by the salt concentration, by the size of liposomes, but to a lower degree by the molecular weight of the guest molecules. In general, we observed that the freeze/thawing encapsulation procedure was the most efficient one. In a second part of the work the freeze/thawing method was applied to encapsulate DNA (369 bp and 3368 bp, respectively) using liposomes obtained from POPC mixed with 1-10% charged cosurfactant, i.e. phosphatidylserine (PS) or didodecyldimethylammonium bromide (DDAB), respectively. Whereas PS had no significant effect, the entrapment efficiency went lip to 60% in POPC/DDAB (97.5:2.5) liposomes. The large entrapment efficiency of DNA permits spectroscopic investigations of the DNA encapsulated in the water pool of the liposomes. UV absorption and circular dichroism spectra were practically the same as in water, indicating no appreciable perturbation of the electronic transitions or of the conformation of the entrapped biopolymer. This was in contrast to the DNA bound externally to the POPC/DDAB liposomes which showed significant spectral changes with respect to DNA dissolved in water. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
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