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ArticleNature medicine2011

RGB marking facilitates multicolor clonal cell tracking.

Kristoffer Weber, Michael Thomaschewski, Michael Warlich, Tassilo Volz, Kerstin Cornils, Birte Niebuhr, Maike Täger, Marc Lütgehetmann, Jörg-Matthias Pollok, Carol Stocking and 3 more

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13 authors.

Kristoffer WeberResearch Department Cell and Gene Therapy, Clinic for Stem Cell Transplantation, University Cancer Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Michael Thomaschewski
Michael Warlich
Tassilo Volz
Kerstin Cornils
Birte Niebuhr
Maike Täger
Marc Lütgehetmann
Jörg-Matthias Pollok
Carol Stocking
Maura Dandri
Daniel Benten
Boris Fehse

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We simultaneously transduced cells with three lentiviral gene ontology (LeGO) vectors encoding red, green or blue fluorescent proteins. Individual cells were thereby marked by different combinations of inserted vectors, resulting in the generation of numerous mixed colors, a principle we named red-green-blue (RGB) marking. We show that lentiviral vector-mediated RGB marking remained stable after cell division, thus facilitating the analysis of clonal cell fates in vitro and in vivo. Particularly, we provide evidence that RGB marking allows assessment of clonality after regeneration of injured livers by transplanted primary hepatocytes. We also used RGB vectors to mark hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells that generated colored spleen colonies. Finally, based on limiting-dilution and serial transplantation assays with tumor cells, we found that clonal tumor cells retained their specific color-code over extensive periods of time. We conclude that RGB marking represents a useful tool for cell clonality studies in tissue regeneration and pathology.

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AnimalsCell TrackingClone CellsColorGenetic VectorsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHepatocytesLiver RegenerationLuminescent ProteinsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, Inbred NODMice, SCIDMice, TransgenicNeoplasm TransplantationRecombinant ProteinsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsLuminescent ProteinsRecombinant ProteinsRed Fluorescent Protein

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PMID21441917

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