i have knocked out a gene from cell line using homologous recombination and it doesn't have a reporter gene and now i want to isolate pure KO cell line. what are the methods i need to follow?
If the knockout is responsible for a specific cell phenotype you may use it. If the knockout is not manifesting any peculiar phenotype then the only way is to characterize the recombination event (using PCR for instance) on isolated cells.
At first you should make sure the proportion of mutant cells(sequence the PCR mix and count). According to proportion to confirm how many single cell you should seed to get the target cells. (What kind of cell? is it easy to amplify?)
if your cells is hard to proliferate, you should provide very good medium when they are seeded as single cell. After those clones derived from single cells grow up you can pick them up one by one and test their knock-out.