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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
Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Production and Expansion from Blood using a Non-Integrating Viral Reprogramming
Arun Sharma1, Michael Mücke1,2,3, Christine E Seidman1,4
1Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Abstract:
We describe a method to transform blood lymphocytes into human-induced pluripotent stem cells by delivering four transcription factors with a non-integrative virus. Using human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) as the source cell type for hiPSC reprogramming is advantageous since blood samples are rapidly and safely obtained from nearly-all subjects. Reprogramming factors needed to make hiPSCs are introduced by infecting the PBMCs with non-integrating Sendai virus vectors. Reprogrammed cells can subsequently be quickly expanded for downstream use. In this unit, we present current protocols for the isolation of PBMCs from a small sample of human blood and subsequent viral reprogramming and expansion of PBMCs into hiPSCs. © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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