Resolving Heterogeneity: Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting of Dynamic Cell Populations from Feeder-Free Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Culture
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Embryonic stem cell (ESC) culture comprises a mixture of cells that are primed to differentiate into different lineages. In conditions where ESCs self-renew, these primed populations continuously interconvert and consequently show highly dynamic coordinated changes in their expression of different sets of pluripotency and differentiation markers. It has become increasingly apparent that this transcriptional heterogeneity is an important characteristic of ESC culture. By sorting for specific populations of ESCs it is possible to enrich for cells with a capacity to colonize the embryo proper or the extra-embryonic lineages such as the descendents of the primitive endoderm or trophoblast. Here, we describe a method of isolating specific sub-sets of ESCs from the pluripotent cells present in in vitro ESC culture using SSEA1 antibody staining in combination with reporter lines and fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS).
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Embryonic Stem Cell Protocols |
Editors | Kursad Turksen |
Number of pages | 16 |
Volume | 1341 |
Publisher | Springer |
Publication date | 2016 |
Pages | 25-40 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4939-2953-5 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4939-2953-5 |
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Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Series | Methods in Molecular Biology |
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Volume | 134 |
ISSN | 1064-3745 |
Bibliographical note
An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/7651_2015_313
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