Molecular Electroporation and the Transduction of Oligoarginines

Details Molecular Electroporation and the Transduction of Oligoarginines Molecular Electroporation and the Transduction of Oligoarginines

2008-10-14

arxiv.org/abs/0810.2358v3

Phys. Biol. 7 (2010) 016001 (14pp)

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Biomolecules

15 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1478-3975/7/1/016001

Certain short polycations, such as TAT and polyarginine, rapidly pass through the plasma membranes of mammalian cells by an unknown mechanism called transduction as well as by endocytosis and macropinocytosis. These cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) promise to be medically useful when fused to biologically active peptides. I offer a simple model in which one or more CPPs and the phosphatidylserines of the inner leaflet form a kind of capacitor with a voltage in excess of 180 mV, high enough to create a molecular electropore. The model is consistent with an empirical upper limit on the cargo peptide of 40--60 amino acids and with experimental data on how the transduction of a polyarginine-fluorophore into mouse C2C12 myoblasts depends on the number of arginines in the CPP and on the CPP concentration. The model makes three testable predictions.

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