Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes for Plasmid DNA Gene Delivery

TLDR: Transmission electron microscopy analysis was performed at the microscopy facility of the Institute of Biomedical Problems and was cofinanced by CNRS, R=gion Alsace, Louis Pasteur University, and the Association de la Recherche pour le Cancer.

Abstract: [*] Dipl.-Chem. D. Pantarotto, Prof. M. Prato Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche Universit di Trieste 34127 Trieste (Italy) Fax: (+39)040-5272 E-mail: prato@univ.trieste.it Dipl.-Chem. R. Singh, Dipl.-Chem. D. McCarthy, Dr. K. Kostarelos Centre for Drug Delivery Research and Electron Microscopy Unit The School of Pharmacy University of London London WC1N 1AX (United Kingdom) Fax: (+39)207-7535942 E-mail: kostas.kostarelos@ulsop.ac.uk Dipl.-Chem. D. Pantarotto, Dr. J.-P. Briand, Dr. A. Bianco Institut de Biologie Mol=culaire et Cellulaire UPR9021 CNRS Immunologie et Chimie Th=rapeutiques 67084 Strasbourg (France) Fax: (+33)388-610-680 E-mail: A.Bianco@ibmc.u-strasbg.fr Dr. M. Erhardt Institut de Biologie Mol=culaire des Plantes 67084 Strasbourg (France) [**] This work was supported by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universit di Trieste, and Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’ Universit e della Ricerca (MIUR; cofin 2002, prot. 2002032171). Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis was performed at the microscopy facility of the Institute of Biomedical Problems and was cofinanced by CNRS, R=gion Alsace, Louis Pasteur University, and the Association de la Recherche pour le Cancer. The authors wish to acknowledge C. D. Partidos for helpful and stimulating discussions. We thank Mr. Claudio Gamboz (Centro Servizi Polivalenti di Ateneo (CSPA), Universit di Trieste) for his great help with the TEM measurements. Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://www.angewandte.org or from the author. Communications