Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells
Junying Yu,1,2* Maxim A. Vodyanik,2 Kim Smuga-Otto,1,2 Jessica Antosiewicz-Bourget,1,2 Jennifer L.
Frane,1 Shulan Tian,3 Jeff Nie,3 Gudrun A. Jonsdottir,3 Victor Ruotti,3 Ron Stewart,3 Igor I. Slukvin,2,4 James
A. Thomson1,2,5*
1Genome Center of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706–1580, USA. 2Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53715–1299, USA. 3WiCell Research Institute, Madison, WI 53707–7365, USA.
4Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA. 5Department
of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706–1509, USA.
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jyu@primate.wisc.edu (J.Y.); thomson@primate.wisc.edu (J.A.T.)
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体细胞核移植技术表明,在哺乳动物卵细胞中具有能使体细胞细胞核重新编程的因子。在本研究中,我们发现有四种因子(OCT4, Sox2, NANOG和LIN28)可以使人类体细胞转分化为具有胚胎干细胞特性的多能干细胞。这些转化多能干细胞类似胚胎干细胞,具有正常核型,表达端粒酶活性,表达相应的细胞表面标志和基因,具有分化为三胚层组织的能力。转化的人类多能干细胞对于制造新的疾病模型和药物研究很有用,一旦技术问题(例如,以病毒介导基因突变)得到解决,还可以将该种细胞应用于移植医学。