Abstract
Cell culture media are often supplemented with recombinant growth factors and cytokines to reproduce biological conditions in vitro. Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) has been widely used to support the pluripotency and self-renewal activity of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). We had previously developed a synthetic surrogate for bFGF on the basis of a DNA aptamer that binds to one of the FGF receptors. Since DNA aptamers have advantages over recombinant proteins in terms of thermal stability and production cost, replacing recombinant growth factors in cell culture media with DNA aptamers would be of great interest. Herein, we describe our protocol for feeder-free hiPSC culture using a DNA aptamer-based mimic of bFGF.
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This work was supported by a Leave a Nest Scientific Research grant from Ikedarika Scientific Co., Ltd. and Leave a Nest Co., Ltd., and a Noguchi-Shitagau Research Grant from the Noguchi Institute, and partly by a research grant from Asahi Glass Foundation.
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Hayata, Y., Ueki, R., Sando, S. (2021). Feeder-Free Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Culture Using a DNA Aptamer-Based Mimic of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor. In: Kojima, R. (eds) Mammalian Cell Engineering. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2312. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1441-9_18
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