Viral Vectors 101: Integrase-Deficient Lentiviral Vectors
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...integrase-deficient packaging plasmid instead of the standard packaging plasmid. For more details on how to...lentiviral genome is distributed across multiple plasmids. For simplicity, we’ll use the second-generation...system as an example.
The lentiviral transfer plasmid encodes your insert of interest, flanked by long...this portion into the host genome.
The packaging plasmid contains Gag, Pol, Rev, and Tat genes. Specifically...production of lentiviral particles.
The envelope plasmid typically encodes the vesicular stomatitis virus...into the host cell.
Transfecting these three plasmids into cells enables the production of lentiviral... vector using an integrase-deficient packaging plasmid available at Addgene: psPAX2-D64V. This construct...