Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping
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...Pseudotyping is only done on enveloped viruses such as lentivirus, retrovirus, and rabies virus.
How to pseudotype...vector, you use the same protocol for generating lentivirus, but you use a different envelope glycoprotein...Lentiviral production uses three plasmids: (1) The transfer plasmid, (2) the envelope plasmid, and (3) the... lentiviral particles.
Why pseudotype?
Lentiviruses and retroviruses typically target immune cells...SARS-CoV-2 spike protein into a lower BSL virus like lentivirus (Crawford et al., 2020). That way, they can study...2020). Because retrovirus is closely related to lentivirus, many retroviral envelope proteins have been ...either virus exhibits alone.
This pseudotyped lentivirus with rabies glycoprotein now serves as a retrograde...