Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors
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...along with a reporter, such as a fluorescence gene or a resistance gene. These reporters allow you to ... using IRES elements. Further, scientists have reported lower expression of the downstream cistron due...eukaryotic cells, and, although some scientists report close to 100% cleavage with some of these peptides...that already has the multicistronic element and reporter cloned in. In these plasmids you would simply ... 2A element (depending on the placement of the reporter gene).
Addgene's collection offers a variety of...Retroviral
pEF1a-IRES-Neo
IRES
Mammalian
MSCV-IRES-Luciferase
IRES
Retroviral
pWPI
IRES
Lentiviral
AmCyan-P2A-mCherry...multicistronic element(s), or you could replace one of the reporter genes above with your gene or genes of interest...