Generation of human iPS cell line SKiPSc1 from healthy Human Neonatal Foreskin Fibroblast cells

Abdullah Alawad; Othman Alhazzaa; Saleh Altuwaijri; Mohammad Alkhrayef; Faisal Alagrafi; Ziyad Alhamdan; Abdullah Alenazi; Sultan Alharbi; Mohamed Hammad

doi:10.1016/j.scr.2016.06.006

Generation of human iPS cell line SKiPSc1 from healthy Human Neonatal Foreskin Fibroblast cells

Stem Cell Res. 2016 Jul;17(1):158-160. doi: 10.1016/j.scr.2016.06.006. Epub 2016 Jun 25.

Authors

Abdullah Alawad¹, Othman Alhazzaa¹, Saleh Altuwaijri², Mohammad Alkhrayef¹, Faisal Alagrafi¹, Ziyad Alhamdan¹, Abdullah Alenazi¹, Sultan Alharbi¹, Mohamed Hammad³

Affiliations

¹ National Center for Stem Cell Technology (NCSCT), Life Sciences and Environment Research Institute (LSERI), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia.
² Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; SAAD Research & Development Center, Clinical Research Lab.& Radiation Oncology, SAAD Specialist Hospital. P.O. Box 30353, Al Khobar 31952, Saudi Arabia.
³ National Center for Stem Cell Technology (NCSCT), Life Sciences and Environment Research Institute (LSERI), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia; SAAD Research & Development Center, Clinical Research Lab.& Radiation Oncology, SAAD Specialist Hospital. P.O. Box 30353, Al Khobar 31952, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 27558616
DOI: 10.1016/j.scr.2016.06.006

Abstract

The SKiPSc1 induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell line was generated from Human Neonatal Foreskin Fibroblasts (HNFFs) obtained from a healthy donor infant that were reprogrammed using non-integrating Sendai viral vectors expressing Oct3/4, Sox2, c-Myc, and Klf4.