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Florian Maria Wurm, Lucia Baldi Unser, David Hacker, Mélanie Hubert

We describe a rapid method for monitoring the cell growth and decline phases in suspension cultures of animal cells. During the cell growth phase, ultraviolet (UV)-absorbing components in the medium are consumed, but at later times as cells begin to die, U ...

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Large-Scale Transfection of Mammalian Cells

Florian Maria Wurm, Lucia Baldi Unser, David Hacker, Carine Meerschman

The large-scale transfection of mammalian cells allows moderate (milligram to gram) amounts of recombinant proteins (r-proteins) to be obtained for fundamental or clinical research. In this article, we describe a one-liter transfection using polyethyleneim ...

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The PiggyBac transposon enhances the frequency of CHO stable cell line generation and yields recombinant lines with superior productivity and stability

Florian Maria Wurm, Lucia Baldi Unser, David Hacker

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Identification of genetic insulator elements to increase the safety of viral gene therapy vectors

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Haematopoeitic system diseases, both acquired and inherited, can be currently cured by allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. This treatment provides highly successful immune function recovery for patients receiving grafts of HLA-compatible d ...

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Accelerating the development time of recombinant mammalian cell lines producing high titers of protein therapeutics

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The forthcoming arrival on the market of numerous protein therapeutics that require high clinical doses will foster the need for high-producing mammalian cell lines. Furthermore, pressures to reduce the development time for new therapeutics has meant more ...

EPFL2008

Calcium phosphate transfection generates mammalian recombinant cell lines with higher specific productivity than polyfection

Florian Maria Wurm, Madiha Derouazi, David Hacker, Nicolas Jaccard, Sébastien Chenuet

Transfection with polyethylenimine (PEI) was evaluated as a method for the generation of recombinant Chinese hamster ovary (CHO DG44) cell lines by direct comparison with calcium phosphate-DNA coprecipitation (CaPO4) using both green fluorescent protein (G ...

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Protection against Mycobacterium ulcerans lesion development by exposure to aquatic insect saliva

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BACKGROUND: Buruli ulcer is a severe human skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. This disease is primarily diagnosed in West Africa with increasing incidence. Antimycobacterial drug therapy is relatively effective during the preulcerative stage of ...

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Generation of recombinant Chinese hamster ovary cell lines by microinjection

Philippe Pierre Girard, Florian Maria Wurm, Martin Jordan, Madiha Derouazi

Microinjection is a gene transfer technique enabling partial control of plasmid delivery into the nucleus or cytoplasm of cultured animal cells. Here this method was used to establish various recombinant mammalian cell lines. The injection volume was estim ...

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer2006

The use of RNA interference to increase PEI-mediated transient gene expression in mammalian cells

Martin Bertschinger

DNA uptake by polyethylenimine (PEI)-mediated transfection was investigated in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO DG44) cells. Rapid DNA uptake was observed with the maximum occurring during the first 45-60 min after addition of PEI-DNA complexes to cells. With lo ...

EPFL2006