The sound of silence: Transgene silencing in mammalian cell engineering

A Cabrera, HI Edelstein, F Glykofrydis, KS Love… - Cell Systems, 2022 - cell.com
To elucidate principles operating in native biological systems and to develop novel
biotechnologies, synthetic biology aims to build and integrate synthetic gene circuits within …

Strategies and considerations for improving recombinant antibody production and quality in Chinese hamster ovary cells

JH Zhang, LL Shan, F Liang, CY Du… - Frontiers in bioengineering …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recombinant antibodies are rapidly developing therapeutic agents; approximately 40 novel
antibody molecules enter clinical trials each year, most of which are produced from Chinese …

Fail-safe system against potential tumorigenicity after transplantation of iPSC derivatives

G Itakura, S Kawabata, M Ando, Y Nishiyama, K Sugai… - Stem cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are promising in regenerative medicine.
However, the risks of teratoma formation and the overgrowth of the transplanted cells …

CellTagging: combinatorial indexing to simultaneously map lineage and identity at single-cell resolution

W Kong, BA Biddy, K Kamimoto, JM Amrute… - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Single-cell technologies are offering unparalleled insight into complex biology, revealing the
behavior of rare cell populations that are masked in bulk population analyses. One current …

An inducible caspase-9 suicide gene to improve the safety of therapy using human induced pluripotent stem cells

S Yagyu, V Hoyos, F Del Bufalo, MK Brenner - Molecular Therapy, 2015 - cell.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) hold promise for regenerative therapies,
though there are several safety concerns including the risk of oncogenic transformation or …

Gene correction of human induced pluripotent stem cells repairs the cellular phenotype in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

N Lachmann, C Happle, M Ackermann… - American journal of …, 2014 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Hereditary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (hPAP) caused by granulocyte–
macrophage colony–stimulating factor (GM-CSF) receptor α-chain (CSF2RA) deficiency is a …

A minimal ubiquitous chromatin opening element (UCOE) effectively prevents silencing of juxtaposed heterologous promoters by epigenetic remodeling in multipotent …

U Müller-Kuller, M Ackermann, S Kolodziej… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Epigenetic silencing of transgene expression represents a major obstacle for the efficient
genetic modification of multipotent and pluripotent stem cells. We and others have …

[PDF][PDF] SyNPL: Synthetic Notch pluripotent cell lines to monitor and manipulate cell interactions in vitro and in vivo

M Malaguti, R Portero Migueles, J Annoh… - …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Cell-cell interactions govern differentiation and cell competition in pluripotent cells during
early development, but the investigation of such processes is hindered by a lack of efficient …

Chromatin function modifying elements in an industrial antibody production platform-comparison of UCOE, MAR, STAR and cHS4 elements

F Saunders, B Sweeney, MN Antoniou, P Stephens… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The isolation of stably transfected cell lines suitable for the manufacture of biotherapeutic
protein products can be an arduous process relying on the identification of a high …

Detailed comparison of retroviral vectors and promoter configurations for stable and high transgene expression in human induced pluripotent stem cells

D Hoffmann, JW Schott, FK Geis, L Lange, FJ Müller… - Gene Therapy, 2017 - nature.com
Correction of patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) upon gene delivery
through retroviral vectors offers new treatment perspectives for monogenetic diseases. Gene …