Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Expansion of functional personalized cells with specific transgene combinations

  • Christoph Lipps,
  • Franziska Klein,
  • Tom Wahlicht,
  • Virginia Seiffert,
  • Milada Butueva,
  • Jeannette Zauers,
  • Theresa Truschel,
  • Martin Luckner,
  • Mario Köster,
  • Roderick MacLeod,
  • Jörn Pezoldt,
  • Jochen Hühn,
  • Qinggong Yuan,
  • Peter Paul Müller,
  • Henning Kempf,
  • Robert Zweigerdt,
  • Oliver Dittrich-Breiholz,
  • Thomas Pufe,
  • Rainer Beckmann,
  • Wolf Drescher,
  • Jose Riancho,
  • Carolina Sañudo,
  • Thomas Korff,
  • Bertram Opalka,
  • Vera Rebmann,
  • Joachim R. Göthert,
  • Paula M. Alves,
  • Michael Ott,
  • Roland Schucht,
  • Hansjörg Hauser,
  • Dagmar Wirth,
  • Tobias May

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03408-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Personalised medicine requires cell cultures from defined genetic backgrounds, but providing sufficient numbers of cells is a challenge. Here the authors develop gene cocktails to expand primary cells from a variety of different tissues and species, and show that expanded endothelial and hepatic cells retain properties of the differentiated phenotype.