Abstract
Genetic reporters offer attractive approaches to investigate gene expression, gene function, and spatiotemporal assessment in vitro and in vivo. Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) is the rate-limiting enzyme for the biosynthesis of the dopamine neurotransmitter, and thus it has been used as a reliable marker for dopaminergic neurons in vitro and in vivo. Herein we describe a method for making iPSC lines with TH-green fluorescent protein reporter gene using CRISPR/Cas9 technique.
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The authors thank members of the Daadi laboratory for the helpful support and suggestions. This work was supported by the Worth Family Fund, the Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable Foundation and the Robert J., Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation, the NIH primate center base grant (Office of Research Infrastructure Programs/OD P51 OD011133), and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through Grant UL1 TR001120.
Disclosures: Dr. Marcel M. Daadi is founder of the biotech company NeoNeuron.
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Hong, H., Daadi, M.M. (2019). Generating Neural Stem Cells from iPSCs with Dopaminergic Neurons Reporter Gene. In: Daadi, M. (eds) Neural Stem Cells. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1919. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9007-8_9
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