Overcoming the Challenges of Lentiviral Production
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Blog Post
...the risk of such events, newer lentiviral packaging systems divide the viral elements among multiple plasmids...Replication competence can arise from recombination events during viral production and poses a biosafety risk...carrying the transfer gene. By dividing the viral elements across multiple plasmids, the risk of recombination...for transfection can make these optimization experiments a bit more challenging. With these considerations... thereby increasing the number of recombination events that are required to generate RCL. To overcome ...drive high levels of expression of certain viral components; according the manufacturer these changes result...lentivirus, the plasmids encoding the structural elements, envelope, and transfer gene are transfected into...