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Top-down motif engineering of a cytokine receptor for directing ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells.
Journal of biotechnology - 1 Dec 2013
Saka Koichiro, Kawahara Masahiro, Teng Jinying, Otsu Makoto, Nakauchi Hiromitsu, Nagamune Teruyuki
Abstract excerpt
The technique to expand hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) ex vivo is eagerly anticipated to secure an enough amount of HSCs for clinical applications. Previously we developed a scFv-thrombopoietin receptor (c-Mpl) chimera, named S-Mpl, which can transduce a proliferation signal in HSCs in response to a cognate antigen. However, a remaining concern of the S-Mpl chimera may be the magnitude of the cellular expansion...
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