AAV Vector Quality Control: Going the Extra Mile with NGS
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...sequence all the DNA packaged inside the viral particles (Figure 1). Briefly, packaged DNA is extracted from...into longer DNA contigs without using a reference sequence. The five contigs with the most total reads are...used to identify DNA contaminants in AAV preparations and provide information on these DNA species with exquisite...increases.
In addition to human error, fragments of DNA from the helper plasmids or the cell genome can be...determine the identity and serotype of the packaged DNA and look for potential contaminants.
The analysis is ...reviewed. As mentioned earlier, it is common to find DNA from the packaging cell genome, bacterial genomes...68544 to validate our method. We then extracted the DNA and processed the mixed sample in our pipeline (see...