A novel method of DNA transfection by laser microbeam cell surgery

Applied Physics B - Tập 35 - Trang 135-140 - 1984
M. Tsukakoshi1, S. Kurata1, Y. Nomiya1, Y. Ikawa1, T. Kasuya1
1The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Tóm tắt

A new technique is presented to incorporate exogeneous gene materials (DNA) into cells with a microbeam irradiation from an uv pulsed laser. A frequency-multiplied Nd:YAG laser, 355 m wavelength, 5 ns pulse duration, punches a self-healing hole of submicrometer aperture in cell membrane under selected irradiation conditions. It takes a fraction of a second for the aperture to close, long enough to allow the foreign DNA, contained in the medium, to slip into the cell. The method offers a clear advantage over existing methods: increases the success rate of DNA transfection as well as the efficiency of cell modification by orders of magnitude.

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