Induced pluripotent stem cells generated without viral integration
By M. Stadtfeld, M. Nagaya, J. Utikal, G. Weir, K. Hochedlinger. 2008
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Pluripotent stem cells have been generated from mouse and human somatic cells by viral expression of the transcription factors Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc. A major limitation of this technology is the use of potentially harmful genome-integrating viruses. We generated mouse induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from fibroblasts and liver cells by using nonintegrating adenoviruses transiently expressing Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc. These adenoviral iPS (adeno-iPS) cells show DNA demethylation characteristic of reprogrammed cells, express endogenous pluripotency genes, form teratomas, and contribute to multiple tissues, including the germ line, in chimeric mice. Our results provide strong evidence that insertional mutagenesis is not required for in vitro reprogramming. Adenoviral reprogramming may provide an improved method for generating and studying patient-specific stem cells and for comparing embryonic stem cells and iPS cells.
Subfields: Molecular Biology
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- S. Yamanaka
- K. Hochedlinger
- Kazutoshi Takahashi
- R. Jaenisch
- M. Stadtfeld
- K. Okita
- Kathrin Plath
- T. Ichisaka
Citations in the corpus
- A fresh look at iPS cells. (2009, background): “…mouse iPS cells have been generated from bone marrow cells (Takahashi and Yamanaka, 2006), hepatocytes and gastric epithelial cells (Aoi et al., 2008), pancreatic cells (Stadtfeld et al., 2008a), neural stem cells (Kim et al., 2008; Silva et al., 2008), and B lymphocytes (Hanna et al., 2008).”