Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a hydrophilic polymer. It can be easily synthesized by the anionic ring opening polymerization of ethylene oxide, into a range molecular weights and variety of end groups. When crosslinked into networks PEG can have high water content, forming “hydrogels PEG is a suitable material for biological applications because it does not trigger an immune response.
Application
Polyethylene glycol (PEG) platelets were used:
in PEG-directed gene delivery of protoplast transfection and incubation[1]
to prepare extraction for measuring cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) from plant tissues
as DNA transformation agent in a study of transient gene expression of plant protoplasts, derived from rice leaf sheaths.[2]
in preparing isothermal assembly buffer and TSS broth preparation for unique nucleotide sequence (UNS)-guided assembly of repetitive DNA parts[3]
in transformation of DNA into log-phase cells of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.[4]
Chemical-based methods have been developed for transformation of DNA into log-phase cells of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae with high efficiency. Transformation of early stationary-phase cells, e.g. cells grown in overnight liquid cultures or as colonies on plates, is less
A simple and effective method to encapsulate tobacco mesophyll protoplasts to maintain cell viability
Lei R, et al.
Methods, 24-32 (2015)
Shen, Jinbo, et al. "Isolation, culture, and transient transformation of plant protoplasts
Molecular tools adapted from bacterial CRISPR (Clustered Regulatory Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) systems for adaptive immunity have become widely used for plant genome engineering, both to investigate gene functions and to engineer desirable traits. A number of different Cas (CRISPR-associated)
Polymer networks of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) in densely cross-linked matrices of acrylic acid (AA) and trimethylolpropane triacrylate were synthesized as biospecific cell adhesive substrates. Networks grafted with synthetic adhesion peptides produced substrates to investigate long-term, receptor-mediated cell/surface interactions, without nonspecific
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