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SUBMITTER: Vega-Crespo A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4954563 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vega-Crespo Agustin A Truong Brian B Hermann Kip J KJ Awe Jason P JP Chang Katherine M KM Lee Patrick C PC Schoenberg Benjamen E BE Wu Lily L Byrne James A JA Lipshutz Gerald S GS
Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development 20160720
Pluripotent stem cells offer great therapeutic promise for personalized treatment platforms for numerous injuries, disorders, and diseases. Octamer-binding transcription factor 4 (OCT4) is a key regulatory gene maintaining pluripotency and self-renewal of mammalian cells. With site-specific integration for gene correction in cellular therapeutics, use of the OCT4 promoter may have advantages when expressing a suicide gene if pluripotency remains. However, the human OCT4 promoter region is 4 kb i ...[more]