Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

An immortalized adult human erythroid line facilitates sustainable and scalable generation of functional red cells

  • Kongtana Trakarnsanga,
  • Rebecca E. Griffiths,
  • Marieangela C. Wilson,
  • Allison Blair,
  • Timothy J. Satchwell,
  • Marjolein Meinders,
  • Nicola Cogan,
  • Sabine Kupzig,
  • Ryo Kurita,
  • Yukio Nakamura,
  • Ashley M. Toye,
  • David J. Anstee,
  • Jan Frayne

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14750
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The generation of a sustainable supply of erythroid progenitors is essential for the reliable production of anin vitroderived red blood cell clinical product. Here the authors immortalize early human erythroblasts to generate the first cell line capable of differentiation into functional adult reticulocytes.