Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid
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...repeats (ITRs) are what makes an AAV transfer plasmid an AAV transfer plasmid. ITR sequences are 145 bases...read through this challenging sequence.
Transgene
The transgene is the gene that will be delivered by the...Most AAV transfer plasmids have a promoter, but this element isn’t required when the transfer plasmid ...control transgene expression. Lox sites are directional 34 bp sequences that can flank the transgene and ...(WHP) Posttranscriptional Regulatory Element (WPRE) forms a tertiary structure when transcribed which ... nuclear export of RNA and RNA translation, and promotes RNA transcript longevity. The polyA is located...proteins needed for the virus to replicate,
and the transfer plasmid which contains the viral genome.
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