Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus
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...virus (MoMLV) and consisted of two plasmids: the packaging plasmid containing all the structural genes...crossover event between the vector plasmid and the packaging plasmid caused the Psi sequence to be placed...expression of the transgene
Transfer plasmids
The transfer plasmid is the vector you clone your gene of...usually 293T cells, with your transfer plasmid and your packaging plasmids. For this, you can use the transfection...techniques are still used and efficiently transfer plasmid DNA efficiently into dividing immortalized cells... (Gag, Pol, Tat, Rev and Env) and the transfer plasmid encoding the insert of interest as well as sequences...the packaging signal Psi). Because the packaging plasmids lacked the psi signal, the genes encoding the ...