Fig. 7. Int activity in stem cells.
Flow cytometry distribution of NSCs (a) and hES cells (b) at 48 h post electroporation for GFP switch tests with Ints 2, 9, 13, phiC31, and Bxb1. The heat map indicates the scattering of high cell concentrations (warm colors) to low cell concentrations (cool colors). The gate encompasses the EGFP-expressing cell population. Bar graph plots showing the total average percentage and standard deviation of NSCs (c) and hES cell (d) populations expressing EGFP in biological repeat assays (n = 3 for NSCs; n = 2 for hES cells) and circles showing the technical triplicate average of each assay on the y axis. The x axis contains the different conditions. In the stem cell assays, Ints 2, 9, 13, phiC31, and Bxb1 were evaluated. Negative control cells were transfected with only one of the two vector sets, that is, integrase expression (pIE) or switch GFP (pSG) vectors. Positive control cells (pGFP) have an egfp sequence in the forward orientation. All the data are representative of three technical and three (NSCs) or two (hES cells) biological replicates.