Transgene-Free Production of Pluripotent Stem Cells Using piggyBac Transposons

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 767, Issue , 2011, Pages 87-103

  Woltjen, Knut ^a   Hämäläinen, Riikka ^b   Kibschull, Mark ^b   Mileikovsky, Maria ^b   Nagy, Andras ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

dox; doxycycline regulated; factor free; induced pluripotent stem cells; iPS cells; iPSC; nonviral; piggyBac; reprogramming; transfection; transgene removal; transgene free; transposition; transposon; virus free

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL SEPARATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; CLONE CELLS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

IPS;

EID: 80054764400     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-201-4_7     Document Type: Chapter

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