Acoustic-transfection for genomic manipulation of single-cells using high frequency ultrasound

Abstract Efficient intracellular delivery of biologically active macromolecules has been a challenging but important process for manipulating live cells for research and therapeutic purposes. There have been limited transfection techniques that can deliver multiple types of active molecules simultan...

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Autores principales: Sangpil Yoon, Pengzhi Wang, Qin Peng, Yingxiao Wang, K. Kirk Shung
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:be26cc80862341fdae4ced22fda1dc162021-12-02T15:04:58ZAcoustic-transfection for genomic manipulation of single-cells using high frequency ultrasound10.1038/s41598-017-05722-12045-2322https://doaj.org/article/be26cc80862341fdae4ced22fda1dc162017-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05722-1https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Efficient intracellular delivery of biologically active macromolecules has been a challenging but important process for manipulating live cells for research and therapeutic purposes. There have been limited transfection techniques that can deliver multiple types of active molecules simultaneously into single-cells as well as different types of molecules into physically connected individual neighboring cells separately with high precision and low cytotoxicity. Here, a high frequency ultrasound-based remote intracellular delivery technique capable of delivery of multiple DNA plasmids, messenger RNAs, and recombinant proteins is developed to allow high spatiotemporal visualization and analysis of gene and protein expressions as well as single-cell gene editing using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated protein-9 nuclease (Cas9), a method called acoustic-transfection. Acoustic-transfection has advantages over typical sonoporation because acoustic-transfection utilizing ultra-high frequency ultrasound over 150 MHz can directly deliver gene and proteins into cytoplasm without microbubbles, which enables controlled and local intracellular delivery to acoustic-transfection technique. Acoustic-transfection was further demonstrated to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 systems to successfully modify and reprogram the genome of single live cells, providing the evidence of the acoustic-transfection technique for precise genome editing using CRISPR-Cas9.Sangpil YoonPengzhi WangQin PengYingxiao WangK. Kirk ShungNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2017)
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Sangpil Yoon
Pengzhi Wang
Qin Peng
Yingxiao Wang
K. Kirk Shung
Acoustic-transfection for genomic manipulation of single-cells using high frequency ultrasound
description Abstract Efficient intracellular delivery of biologically active macromolecules has been a challenging but important process for manipulating live cells for research and therapeutic purposes. There have been limited transfection techniques that can deliver multiple types of active molecules simultaneously into single-cells as well as different types of molecules into physically connected individual neighboring cells separately with high precision and low cytotoxicity. Here, a high frequency ultrasound-based remote intracellular delivery technique capable of delivery of multiple DNA plasmids, messenger RNAs, and recombinant proteins is developed to allow high spatiotemporal visualization and analysis of gene and protein expressions as well as single-cell gene editing using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated protein-9 nuclease (Cas9), a method called acoustic-transfection. Acoustic-transfection has advantages over typical sonoporation because acoustic-transfection utilizing ultra-high frequency ultrasound over 150 MHz can directly deliver gene and proteins into cytoplasm without microbubbles, which enables controlled and local intracellular delivery to acoustic-transfection technique. Acoustic-transfection was further demonstrated to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 systems to successfully modify and reprogram the genome of single live cells, providing the evidence of the acoustic-transfection technique for precise genome editing using CRISPR-Cas9.
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author Sangpil Yoon
Pengzhi Wang
Qin Peng
Yingxiao Wang
K. Kirk Shung
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Qin Peng
Yingxiao Wang
K. Kirk Shung
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title Acoustic-transfection for genomic manipulation of single-cells using high frequency ultrasound
title_short Acoustic-transfection for genomic manipulation of single-cells using high frequency ultrasound
title_full Acoustic-transfection for genomic manipulation of single-cells using high frequency ultrasound
title_fullStr Acoustic-transfection for genomic manipulation of single-cells using high frequency ultrasound
title_full_unstemmed Acoustic-transfection for genomic manipulation of single-cells using high frequency ultrasound
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