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Table 1 Summary of studies of reprogramming of cancer cells from induce pluripotent stem cell technology. We have modified the summary of the table reported by Camare et al. [25, 26]

From: Cancer cell reprogramming to identify the genes competent for generating liver cancer stem cells

CSCs examples

Original cells

Methods of reprogramming

Karyotype

Chimeras

Teratoma/tumor formation

Drug sensitivity

Utikal et al. (2009) [65]

Mice melanoma R454 (rasinduce cells)

Lentivirus OKM

Trisomy chromosomes 8 and 11

Yes

Yes

No tumor in the absence of Dox

Carette et al. (2010) [42]

Human leukemia KBM7 (CML)

Retrovirus OSKM

Tetraployd, chromosomes 9 and 22 Ph(+)

Not applied

Yes

Cell type specific drug sensitivity

Retrovirus OSK (incomplete reprogramming)

Miyoshi et al. (2010) [43]

Human gastrointestinal cancer cells

Retrovirus and lentivirus + lipofectamine OSKM

Abnormal

Not applied

Yes

Post iPSC cells—more sensitive to 5-Fu and differentiation inducing drug

Kuo et al. (2016) [59]

Human HepG2 liver cancer cells and mouse hepatocytes-iPSCs

Lentivirus OSKM + shp53RNA (lentivirus O + c-JUN for direct reprogramming)

Abnormal

Not applied

Yes

Yes