Significantly, cells with reduced mtDNA became self - renewing and expressed specific cell
surface markers characteristic of breast cancer stem cells.
Not exact matches
They also showed that the cells have most of the
surface «
markers» considered as identifiers of embryonic stem cells and form «embryoid bodies» —
characteristic clumps of cells formed by ESCs.
ES cells can be described based on a
characteristic morphology, the presence of cell
surface markers such as SSEA - 1 and Pecam1, or the expression of the key transcription factors such as Oct4, Sox2, Nanog, and a number of ES cell - specific transcripts (ECATs)[4]--[6].
Our laboratory used two monoclonal antibodies, GCTM - 2 and TG30, recognizing the cell
surface proteoglycan
characteristic of primate ES cells and CD9 respectively, to fractionate human ES cell populations into four compartments according to their relative levels of expression of both
markers [14].