Choline containing metabolites during cell transfection: an insight into magnetic resonance spectroscopy detectable changes
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- 27 November 2001
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 509 (2) , 263-266
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(01)03175-1
Abstract
Increases in choline containing metabolites have been associated with a number of disorders, including malignant cell growth. In this study, high resolution magic angle spinning 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy was employed to monitor metabolite changes during cell transfection, and an increase in phosphocholine was detected. This increase appears to be correlated with cell membrane disruption associated with the insertion of plasmid DNA into cells, since the level of phosphocholine in mock transfected cells was comparable to that of control cells. These data suggest choline containing metabolite changes detected in vivo using magnetic resonance spectroscopy relate to cell membrane disruption.Keywords
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