Polyethylene-glycol-mediated cybrid formation: High-efficiency techniques and cybrid formation without enucleation (original) (raw)

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Polyethylene glycol (PEG) can be used to promote the fusion of enucleated cytoplasts from chloramphenicol (CAP)-resistant mouse cells with intact cells, resulting in the formation of viable cybrids. The techniques are simple and highly efficient, yielding up to one viable cybrid per 20 intact cells fused. It also seems that PEG can be used to induce cybrid formation without the necessity of prior enucleation of the CAP-resistant cells.

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  1. Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital Medical Center, 02115, Boston, Massachusetts
    Jay M. Wilson & Richard L. Davidson
  2. Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, 02115, Boston, Massachusetts
    Neil Howell & Ruth Sager
  3. Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 02115, Boston, Massachusetts
    Neil Howell, Ruth Sager & Richard L. Davidson
  4. Department of Interdisciplinary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    Jay M. Wilson

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Wilson, J.M., Howell, N., Sager, R. et al. Polyethylene-glycol-mediated cybrid formation: High-efficiency techniques and cybrid formation without enucleation.Somat Cell Mol Genet 4, 745–752 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01543162

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