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Generation of Integration-free Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Using Episomal Vectors
Published on: January 1, 2017
Generation of iPSC line epiHUVEC from human umbilical vein endothelial cells
1Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Institute of Biology, Humboldt University, 10099 Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were used to generate the iPSC line epiHUVEC employing a combination of three episomal-based plasmids expressing OCT4, SOX2, NANOG, LIN28, c-MYC and KLF4. Pluripotency was confirmed both in vivo and in vitro. The transcriptome profile of epiHUVEC and the human embryonic stem cell line - H1 have a Pearson correlation of 0.899.

