Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid
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...with some plasmids. You just need three plasmids to start making AAV:
the packaging plasmid which contains... transfer plasmid an AAV transfer plasmid. ITR sequences are 145 bases each and AAV plasmids have two ...reporter like GFP, some smaller CRISPR-Cas proteins such as SaCas9, CRISPR gRNAs, or your gene of interest...of an AAV transfer plasmid. Parts shown in green are key elements of an AAV plasmid. Parts shown in grey... elements of an AAV plasmid
First let’s talk about the key parts of an AAV plasmid.
Inverted terminal ...Promoter
The promoter drives the expression of the AAV transgene. On a plasmid map, promoters are upstream ... of expression. For example, CAG is a strong promoter that drives very high, ubiquitous expression, while...