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LIFE09200604002 Lalit Sehgal - Homi Bhabha National Institute

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transduction with the virus. Untransduced cells showed no fluorescent signal. To<br />

determine whether stable cell clones could be generated using this vector system, Keratin<br />

18 (K18) was cloned in frame with YFP to generate pLV-K18-YFP-IRES-Puro. The<br />

human hepatocyte cell line, HHL-17, was infected with K18- YFP expressing lentiviral<br />

particles followed by the selection of stable cell clones using Puromycin (0.25 g/ml).<br />

The integration of the K18-YFP transgene encoded by the lentivirus in HHL-17 cells was<br />

determined by performing genomic DNA PCR’s on the HHL-17 derived stable clone<br />

(Figure 4.1.5 b). The expression of K18-YFP was observed by confocal microscopy and<br />

it was observed that the exogenously expressed protein was able to integrate into the<br />

endogenous keratin filament network (Figure 4.1.5 c) as previously reported (150, 398).<br />

These results confirm that the bi-cistronic lentiviral vectors can be used for assays that<br />

require either transient or stable expression.<br />

Figure 4.1.5 Transient and stable transgene expression using bi-cistronic lentiviral<br />

vector. (A) HEK 293 cells transduced by lentiviruses encoding either dsRED, mCherry,<br />

EGFP, YFP or CFP driven by the CMV promoter showing transient expression of the<br />

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