Communications Biology (Jan 2022)
Transfected plasmid DNA is incorporated into the nucleus via nuclear envelope reformation at telophase
Abstract
Haraguchi et al. investigate how transfected DNA is incorporated into the nucleus using light and electron microscopy, and the LacI/LacO system. The authors report that cytoplasmic localised plasmid DNA is incorporated into the nucleus as it reforms during M-exit and transgene expression was achieved only after nuclear reformation in the next G1.