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Derek A. Persons was affiliated with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the United States. Their work contributed to the scientific community through various research activities during their career.

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Best Publications

  • Targeting gene-modified hematopoietic cells to the central nervous system: Use of green fluorescent protein uncovers microglial engraftment

    Josef Priller;Alexander FLüGEL;T. I. M. Wehner;Matthias Boentert

  • Altered growth regulation and enhanced tumorigenicity of NIH 3T3 fibroblasts transfected with protein kinase C-I cDNA

    Derek A. Persons;William O. Wilkison;Robert M. Bell;Olivera J. Finn

  • Neogenesis of cerebellar Purkinje neurons from gene-marked bone marrow cells in vivo

    Josef Priller;Derek A. Persons;Francisco F. Klett;Gerd Kempermann

  • Distinct genomic integration of MLV and SIV vectors in primate hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells.

    Peiman Hematti;Bum Kee Hong;Cole Ferguson;Rima Adler

  • Enforced expression of the GATA-2 transcription factor blocks normal hematopoiesis.

    Derek A. Persons;James A. Allay;Esther R. Allay;Richard A. Ashmun

  • Comparison of Various Envelope Proteins for Their Ability to Pseudotype Lentiviral Vectors and Transduce Primitive Hematopoietic Cells from Human Blood

    Hideki Hanawa;Patrick F Kelly;Amit C Nathwani;Derek A Persons

  • Retroviral-Mediated Transfer of the Green Fluorescent Protein Gene Into Murine Hematopoietic Cells Facilitates Scoring and Selection of Transduced Progenitors In Vitro and Identification of Genetically Modified Cells In Vivo

    Derek A. Persons;James A. Allay;Esther R. Allay;Richard J. Smeyne

  • In vivo selection of retrovirally transduced hematopoietic stem cells

    James A. Allay;Derek A. Persons;Jacques Galipeau;Janice M. Riberdy

  • Efficient gene transfer into rhesus repopulating hematopoietic stem cells using a simian immunodeficiency virus–based lentiviral vector system

    Hideki Hanawa;Peiman Hematti;Keyvan Keyvanfar;Mark E. Metzger

  • The degree of phenotypic correction of murine β-thalassemia intermedia following lentiviral-mediated transfer of a human γ-globin gene is influenced by chromosomal position effects and vector copy number

    Derek A. Persons;Phillip W. Hargrove;Esther R. Allay;Hideki Hanawa

  • Transcriptional regulation of fetal to adult hemoglobin switching: new therapeutic opportunities

    Andrew Wilber;Arthur W. Nienhuis;Derek A. Persons

  • Hematopoietic cells and osteoblasts are derived from a common marrow progenitor after bone marrow transplantation

    Massimo Dominici;Colin Pritchard;John E. Garlits;Ted J. Hofmann

  • Fv2 encodes a truncated form of the Stk receptor tyrosine kinase.

    Derek A. Persons;Robert F. Paulson;Melanie R. Loyd;Mark T. Herley

  • Successful treatment of murine β-thalassemia using in vivo selection of genetically modified, drug-resistant hematopoietic stem cells

    Derek A. Persons;Esther R. Allay;Nobukuni Sawai;Phillip W. Hargrove

  • High-Efficiency Transduction and Long-Term Gene Expression with a Murine Stem Cell Retroviral Vector Encoding the Green Fluorescent Protein in Human Marrow Stromal Cells

    Jeffrey C. Marx;James A. Allay;Derek A. Persons;Sharon A. Nooner

  • Extended β-globin locus control region elements promote consistent therapeutic expression of a γ-globin lentiviral vector in murine β-thalassemia

    Hideki Hanawa;Phillip W. Hargrove;Steven Kepes;Deo K. Srivastava

  • Use of the green fluorescent protein as a marker to identify and track genetically modified hematopoietic cells

    Derek A Persons;James A Allay;Janice M Riberdy;Robert P Wersto

  • Correction of Murine Sickle Cell Disease Using γ-Globin Lentiviral Vectors to Mediate High-level Expression of Fetal Hemoglobin

    Tamara I Pestina;Phillip W Hargrove;Dennis Jay;John T Gray

  • Globin lentiviral vector insertions can perturb the expression of endogenous genes in beta-thalassemic hematopoietic cells.

    Phillip W Hargrove;Steven Kepes;Hideki Hanawa;John C Obenauer

  • Therapeutic levels of fetal hemoglobin in erythroid progeny of β-thalassemic CD34+ cells after lentiviral vector-mediated gene transfer.

    Andrew Wilber;Phillip W. Hargrove;Yoon-Sang Kim;Janice M. Riberdy

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur W. Nienhuis
Arthur W. Nienhuis St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Brian P. Sorrentino
Brian P. Sorrentino St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Cynthia E. Dunbar
Cynthia E. Dunbar National Institutes of Health
Kelli L. Boyd
Kelli L. Boyd Vanderbilt University Medical Center
John F. Tisdale
John F. Tisdale National Institutes of Health
James N. Ihle
James N. Ihle St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Yin-Yuan Mo
Yin-Yuan Mo University of Mississippi Medical Center
Robert E. Donahue
Robert E. Donahue National Institutes of Health
Geoffrey Neale
Geoffrey Neale St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Elaine I. Tuomanen
Elaine I. Tuomanen St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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