Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats
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...contains a 4-nucleotide Rep binding element (RBE) that serves as a binding site for Rep78 and Rep68 to...rep (replication) and cap (capsid) proteins, which bind to the ITRs and initiate replication. ITRs are cis-acting... 1). Everything else outside the ITRs gets left behind.
Figure 1: Recombinant AAV vector with ITRs...the gene of interest. A single ITR consists of palindromic arms (A-A’, B-B’, and C-C’) that give the feature...-shape. The arrangement of the B-B’ and C-C’ palindromic sequences determines the orientation of the ITR...and flop orientation. The ITR contains three palindromic sequences (A-A’, B-B’, and C-C’ regions) and ...and forms a T-shaped structure. The Rep binding element (RBE) and terminal resolution site (trs) are noted...