Quantification of Etoposide Hypersensitivity: A Sensitive, Functional Method for Assessing Pluripotent Stem Cell Quality

Autor: Timothy J. Nelson, Frank J. Secreto, Alyson J. Smith, Bonnie K. Arendt, Sybil C. L. Hrstka, Ester Perales-Clemente, Emma B. Brandt, Elizabeth S. Bruinsma, Xing Li, Gresin Hawse, Saji Oommen, Dennis A. Wigle
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Stem Cells Translational Medicine
ISSN: 2157-6580
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Popis: Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) hold great promise in diagnostic and therapeutic applications. However, translation of hiPSC technology depends upon a means of assessing hiPSC quality that is quantitative, high-throughput, and can decipher malignant teratocarcinoma clones from normal cell lines. These attributes are lacking in current approaches such as detection of cell surface makers, RNA profiling, and/or teratoma formation assays. The latter remains the gold standard for assessing clone quality in hiPSCs, but is expensive, time-consuming, and incompatible with high-throughput platforms. Herein, we describe a novel method for determining hiPSC quality that exploits pluripotent cells’ documented hypersensitivity to the topoisomerase inhibitor etoposide (CAS No. 33419-42-0). Based on a study of 115 unique hiPSC clones, we established that a half maximal effective concentration (EC50) value of
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