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Table 1 Efficiency of stable clone generation based on resistance markers and their promoters

From: Efficient, high-throughput transfection of human embryonic stem cells

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)

  1. 1Murine phosphoglycerate kinase promoter/enhancer.
  2. 2Human elongation factor 1-alpha promoter/enhancer.
  3. 3Cytomegalovirus immediate-early promoter/enhancer.
  4. 4Simian virus-40 promoter/origin region.
  5. 5Values shown represent means of two to six experiments.