Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Engineered amphiphilic peptides enable delivery of proteins and CRISPR-associated nucleases to airway epithelia

  • Sateesh Krishnamurthy,
  • Christine Wohlford-Lenane,
  • Suhas Kandimalla,
  • Gilles Sartre,
  • David K. Meyerholz,
  • Vanessa Théberge,
  • Stéphanie Hallée,
  • Anne-Marie Duperré,
  • Thomas Del’Guidice,
  • Jean-Pascal Lepetit-Stoffaes,
  • Xavier Barbeau,
  • David Guay,
  • Paul B. McCray

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12922-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Delivering biological cargo to airway epithelial cells is very challenging. Here, the authors use engineered amphiphilic peptides to shuttle proteins and CRISPR RNPs into airway cells in vivo.