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Production of Lentiviral Vector with Polycistronic Transcripts for Reprogramming of Mouse Fibroblast Cells

Akram Al Abbar, Norshariza Nordin, Siew Ching Ngai and Syahril Abdullah

Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2018

Keywords: 2A peptides, iPS cells, lentivirus production, OSKM, polycistronic vectors

Published on: 30 Apr 2018

iPS cells were originally generated using monocistronic retroviral vectors carrying the Yamanaka factors 'OSKM'. The development of a polycistronic viral vector with OSKM linked by 2A peptides has simplified reprogramming procedure and reduced the risk of multiple proviral integrations and insertional mutagenesis. In this study, we demonstrated the production of the polycistronic lentiviral vector encoding OSKM in a single cassette without a reporter gene or drug-based selection system. Syncytia formations were clearly seen following the co-transfection of a lentiviral plasmid construct with the structural and packaging plasmids. The virion was collected at 48 hours post-transfection. Afterwards, the viral titers were measured by the expression of Sox2 protein from transduced HT1080 cells. Subsequently, Oct4 expression was successfully detected in mouse fibroblasts in the range of 5, 10 and 20 MOIs with expression of 90.7%, 97.5% and 98%, respectively. The results obtained from this study could be used as a model for the production of OSKM lentiviral vector for newcomers to cellular reprogramming research.

ISSN 1511-3701

e-ISSN 2231-8542

Article ID

JST-0759-2016

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