Elizabeth Mckenna | Jul 21, 2002 | 2 min read
Protein transfection, also called transduction, is the delivery of a biologically active protein or peptide directly into living cells.1 Pro-Ject™, a cationic lipid-based reagent, from Rockford, Ill.-based Pierce Biotechnology accomplishes this noninvasively--first, by noncovalently complexing with a protein, then fusing with or being endocytosed by the cell membrane, and finally, delivering a functional protein into the cytoplasm. Pro-Ject is fast and simple to use, with an average kit