Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats
Type
Blog Post
Published
Oct. 19, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
...reduce binding with Rep proteins and mutations in the trs site reduce Rep nicking. Since Rep proteins are important...persistence. They work in conjunction with the viral rep (replication) and cap (capsid) proteins, which bind...). Additionally, the ITR contains a 4-nucleotide Rep binding element (RBE) that serves as a binding site...resolution site that serves as the target site for Rep proteins (Savvy et al. 2013).
Figure 2: AAV2 wild...-C’ regions) and forms a T-shaped structure. The Rep binding element (RBE) and terminal resolution site...productivity but increases transgene expression. Sci Rep, 7(1), 5432. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04054...