Table 1

Efficiency of stable clone generation based on resistance markers and their promoters

Vector

Resistance marker

Transcriptional control

Selective drug (dose)

Frequency of stable integrants5


pPGK-Puro

Puro

PGK1

Puromycin (0.5 μg/ml)

>8 × 10-5

pTracer-BSD

BSD (GFP fusion)

EF1α2

Blasticidin-S (2.0 μg/ml)

4.9 × 10-5

pCMV-BSD

BSD

CMV3

Blasticidin-S (2.0 μg/ml)

6.3 × 10-6

pBM14

Neo

PGK1

Geneticin/G418 (50 μg/ml)

6.0 × 10-6

pEGFP-C3

Neo

SV404

Geneticin/G418 (50 μg/ml)

6.3 × 10-6

pRNAT-U6.1 (GFP)

Hyg

SV404

Hygromycin-B (10 to 100 μg/ml)

<1.0 × 10-6 (none recovered)


1Murine phosphoglycerate kinase promoter/enhancer.

2Human elongation factor 1-alpha promoter/enhancer.

3Cytomegalovirus immediate-early promoter/enhancer.

4Simian virus-40 promoter/origin region.

5Values shown represent means of two to six experiments.

Moore et al. Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2010 1:23   doi:10.1186/scrt23

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