Why Add Sucrose? Improved Yields for Adeno-associated Virus Preparation
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Blog Post
...redesigning viral packaging plasmids, investigating different viral production strategies or developing novel...silver stain approaches we show that there is no difference in purity or infectivity between the untreated...GFP-expressing AAV particles we did not observe any difference between untreated and sucrose treated cells. ...it will be exciting to test this approach with different capsids. Most importantly, because our AAV yields...spending less time and resources resupplying our current inventory and more time providing new materials...materials to the research community.
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1. Coroadinha, A. S., et al. "Effect of osmotic pressure on...