Overcoming the Challenges of Lentiviral Production
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... multiple plasmids. Second generation packaging systems use 3 plasmids; an envelope plasmid that usually...usually encodes VSV-G, a packaging plasmid containing structural genes and a transfer plasmid carrying the...Rev gene from the packaging plasmid and incorporating it into a fourth plasmid. In addition, the promoter...and packaging plasmids in order to obtain the best titers. Requiring an additional plasmid for transfection...transfection and titers)
To produce lentivirus, the plasmids encoding the structural elements, envelope, and transfer...dividing the viral genome into additional plasmids thereby increasing the number of recombination events that...By dividing the viral elements across multiple plasmids, the risk of recombination and consequently, the...