5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions
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...use a standard strain, like DH5α, grown at 30 °C instead of 37 °C. If you’re unsure about the integrity ...prefer to store freshly harvested virus at 4 °C instead of storing it briefly at -80 °C. If troubleshooting...option may be to avoid freezing altogether, and instead to use the virus immediately upon harvesting. Interestingly...appear as a white pellet. The pellet can then be rinsed and resuspended in cold sterile PBS.
Alternatively...of ensuring viral production is to perform PCR against components of the viral vector using the harvested...