Plant peptide gamma-zein for delivery of biomolecules into plant cells

摘要

Disclosed is a method of introducing a nucleic acid of interest into a plant cell having a cell wall, the method comprising: providing the plant cell having a cell wall; interacting a gamma-zein peptide with a nucleic acid of interest to form a gamma-zein linked structure; placing the cell having a cell wall and the gamma-zein linked structure in contact with each other; and allowing uptake of the gamma-zein linked structure into the cell having the cell wall.