A Practical Protocol for the Conditional Depletion of Rho Isoforms in Human Embryonic Stem Cells.
Methods Mol Biol 2019. [PMID:
30062420 DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4939-8612-5_20]
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Abstract
Human pluripotent stem cells indefinitely proliferate and survive in culture while retaining genomic integrity, providing a unique opportunity to study human molecular biology. Here, we introduced an RNA interference-based protocol of inducible gene silencing in human embryonic stem cells, which has several advantages in handling simplicity/convenience, cost/time performance, and applicability. Using this method, we had succeeded to elucidate the isoform-unique roles of Rho-family small GTPases in human embryonic stem cells.
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