Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats
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...binding with Rep proteins and mutations in the trs site reduce Rep nicking. Since Rep proteins are important...with the viral rep (replication) and cap (capsid) proteins, which bind to the ITRs and initiate replication... with ITRs that flank the gene cassette, which contains a promoter, the gene of interest, and a polyA ...flip” or “flop” (Figure 2). Additionally, the ITR contains a 4-nucleotide Rep binding element (RBE) that ...resolution site that serves as the target site for Rep proteins (Savvy et al. 2013).
Figure 2: AAV2 wild type...type ITR in flip and flop orientation. The ITR contains three palindromic sequences (A-A’, B-B’, and C-C...sequences. Using recombinant-deficient bacterial strains such as NEB Stable, Stbl3, JC8111, SURE2, or XL10...