The goal of this study was to formulate technologies that allow for successful gene transduction in primary natural killer (NK) cells. The dextran-mediated lentiviral transduction of human or mouse primary NK cells results in higher gene expression efficiencies. This method of gene transduction will vastly improve NK cell genetic manipulation.
Nanbakhsh, A., Best, B., Riese, M., Rao, S., Wang, L., Medin, J., Thakar, M. S., Malarkannan, S. Dextran Enhances the Lentiviral Transduction Efficiency of Murine and Human Primary NK Cells. J. Vis. Exp. (131), e55063, doi:10.3791/55063 (2018).