pCXLE toolkit: Efficient episomal plasmid-based method to reprogram peripheral blood cells to iPSCs
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Blog Post
Published
Dec. 14, 2017, 2:08 p.m.
...This post was contributed by Kusumika (Kushi) Mukherjee, a Postdoc at Massachussetts General Hospital...and to model diseases in vitro.
Find stem cell plasmids at Addgene
Many sources of adult somatic cells...Episomal vectors- extrachromosomally maintained DNA plasmids that express reprogramming factors
To date, the...group is an optimized mixture of three episomal plasmids (Table 1) encoding the reprogramming factors. ...enhance the reprogramming efficiency, an extra plasmid, pCXWB-EBNA-1 is used in the reprogramming cocktail...increases protein expression from the other episomal plasmids. When used on PBMCs, the pCXLE episomal vector...available at Addgene.
Table 1: List of pCXLE episomal plasmids, their Addgene ID numbers and the reprogramming...