Here we present protocols that offer a flexible and strategic foundation for virally manipulating oligodendrocyte precursor cells to overexpress proteins of interest in order to specifically interrogate their role in oligodendrocytes via the in vitro model of central nervous system myelination.
Peckham, H. M., Ferner, A. H., Giuffrida, L., Murray, S. S., Xiao, J. Production and Use of Lentivirus to Selectively Transduce Primary Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells for In Vitro Myelination Assays. J. Vis. Exp. (95), e52179, doi:10.3791/52179 (2015).