A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research
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...pseudovirus, scientists can study the mechanisms of infection and how to interfere with it in a BSL-2 lab instead...found that cathepsins play a role in SARS-CoV infection and deposited plasmids for the expression of cathepsin...SARS-CoV-2 entry and become upregulated during viral infection.
Expression of SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins
In the...19 pandemic, the Krogan lab at UCSF generated lentiviral vectors expressing SARS-CoV-2 open reading frames...all but one are cloned into pLVX vectors (for lentiviral packaging) and contain an IRES-Puro marker for...as critical host factors modulating SARS-CoV-2 infection. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.22.440848...(2020) Protocol and Reagents for Pseudotyping Lentiviral Particles with SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein for Neutralization...