Targeting a GFP reporter gene to the MIXL1 locus of human embryonic stem cells identifies human primitive streak-like cells and enables isolation of primitive hematopoietic precursors

Blood

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1876-1884

  Davis, Richard P ^a   Ng, Elizabeth S ^a   Costa, Magdaline ^a   Mossman, Anna K ^a   Sourris, Koula ^a   Elefanty, Andrew G ^a   Stanley, Edouard G ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BETA ACTIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CD34 ANTIGEN; GENE PRODUCT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; PROTEIN MIXL1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MIXL1 GENE; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE;

EID: 39349097787     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 00064971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2007-06-093609     Document Type: Article

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