ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Comparative efficiency of accessible transfection methods in model cell lines for biotechnological applications

About authors

1 Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow, Russia

2 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Anastasia V. Lipatova
Vavilova, 32/1, Moscow, 119991, Russia; moc.liamg@vnaavotapil

About paper

Funding: the project was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant number 20-75-10157 of August 14, 2020 "Research on the possibilities of obtaining recombinant strains of oncolytic viruses with tumor-specific replication and immunomodulatory protein expression").

Author contribution: Vorobyev PO, Kochetkov DV, Vasilenko KV and Lipatova AV participated equally in the laboratory experiments, preparation of the figures and interpretation of the results.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study complies with the requirements of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.

Received: 2022-04-22 Accepted: 2022-05-30 Published online: 2022-06-23
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