Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats
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...contain several important elements, but among the most important are the inverted terminal repeats (ITRs...unstable, a more stable 130 bp version is used in most plasmids. In an AAV vector plasmid, they flank the...modifications and types
Since ITRs are one of the most important elements of AAV and rAAV vectors, modifications...increase transgene expression (Zhou et al., 2017). The most common variant is an 11 bp deletion in the B or ...T-shaped hairpin loop sequences (Wilmott et al. 2019). Most ITR sequences are from AAV2 because they demonstrate...