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SUBMITTER: Riebe S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9054052 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Riebe Steffen S Zimmermann Alexander A Koch Johannes J Vallet Cecilia C Knauer Shirley K SK Sowa Andrea A Wölper Christoph C Voskuhl Jens J
RSC advances 20200527 33
In this communication we present the use of a novel class of luminophores with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) properties based on the steroid estrone. These molecules were equipped with cationic residues yielding amphiphiles suitable for lipofection. To this end, self-assembled luminescent structures were formed in aqueous media and mixed with a red-fluorescent protein expressing plasmid, yielding lipoplexes with increased emission intensity. These luminescent lipoplexes were able to efficie ...[more]