Identifying Cell Surface Markers of Primary Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells by Metabolic Labeling of SialoglycanQing-Ran Bai *1, Lu Dong *2, Qin Shen 1
1Brain and Spinal Cord Innovative Research Center of Tongji Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University and Frontier Science Research Center for Stem Cells of Ministry of Education, 2College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, and Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Peking University
Presented here is a protocol that combines an in vitro neural-endothelial co-culture system and metabolic incorporation of sialoglycan with bioorthogonal functional groups to expand primary neural stem and progenitor cells and label their surface sialoglycoproteins for imaging or mass-spectrometry analysis of cell surface markers.
