A colleague of mine recently saw a talk in which the presenter claimed to deliver a membrane-impermeable small molecule metabolite into cultured cells using Lipofectamine (or a similar cationic lipid-based transfection reagent). I'm skeptical that this would work as advertised, but if it did this would be a very useful method for us. However, a quick check hasn't turned up any useful references.
Has anyone ever tried this, or seen a reference they could share? Ideally, I'd like to deliver something like, say, 3-phosphoglycerate into cells at a high enough rate to support a metabolic pathway.
Lipofectamine is one of several nanosystems to do so. The group where I got my masters degree used a LNC developed by our colleagues.
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22322210; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27233482; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21803409; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28130145).
Before encapsulating or adsorbing your molecule to a nanosystem you may want to investigate which size, zeta potentia and type of polymers used would be of best use to your nanocapsules/particle so you could deliver an impermeable molecule to your target cell or tissue. Good luck!
Dear Kellen,
Lipid-based transfection reagent has the potential to deliver small molecules. Based on the structure of the 3-Phosphoglyceric acid, hydrophobic part and phosphate group, it can work. However, I will privilege a reagent ;ore suited for such application such as Pro-DeliverIN. You can find information here: http://www.ozbiosciences.com/transfection-protein/35-pro-deliverin-transfection-reagent-protein-delivery.html
If you need more information or a sample please let me know
Hello,
I would recommend a free reagent and antibody database available at labome.com. You can check this link to the review on Lipofectamine applications: https://www.labome.com/review/reagent/transfection-reagent-Lipofectamine-Fugene-Superfect-and-others.html with references for different applications of Lipofectamine produced by Invitrogen, Lipofectamine LTX from Dako and similar transfection reagents from other sources.
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