Top Requested Plasmid of 2017 - pMD2.G
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...reason, the top requested plasmid of 2017 is the lentivirus envelope plasmid pMD2.G from Didier Trono’s lab...lab!
Lentivirus envelope vector pMD2.G
This plasmid has been requested nearly 6,000 times (over 800 orders... a sense of the broad usefulness of pMD2.G and VSV-G. This plasmid has been used in studies of the secretome...searchable list here).
Tips for using pMD2.G
At Addgene, we use pMD2.G for producing our ready-to-use lentivirus...the VSV-G envelope protein under the control of the powerful mammalian CMV promoter.
Envelope proteins...example (the top requested plasmids from 2015 and 2016 were CRISPR plasmids), but so are lentiviral vectors...the types of cells that it can infect. The VSV-G envelope is widely used and requested because it enables...