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  1. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    Aug. 19, 2014, 3:39 p.m.
    ...Vectors (or empty backbones) are frequently used in molecular biology to isolate, multiply, or express...mammalian expression system and go for a lentiviral or a retroviral backbone. This is considered to be a more ... empty backbones for additional details and guidance for choosing your perfect plasmid backbone. Or just...At Addgene, we have a vast collection of empty backbones that have been designed, tested, and published...
  2. Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025

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    June 3, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...EGFP-expressing lentiviral backbones designed right here at Addgene. Here's what makes these new backbones special...tailored deactivation rates Addgene's own empty lentiviral backbones New recombinant antibodies for Glypicans... Build your way: Explore Addgene's new empty backbones By Meghan Rego You asked, we listened! One of ... in a scientist's toolkit is the empty plasmid backbone: the DNA vector that contains everything needed...favorite features and limitations of existing backbones, we're excited to share our very own set of empty...launching later this year!  Find Addgene's own Lentiviral backbone plasmids here! Figure 2: Addgene ...HA-EGFP Puro (Addgene #236081), then generated lentiviral particles in HEK293T cells with pMD2.G (Addgene...
  3. Popular Retroviral Vectors and Their Uses in Scientific Research

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    July 24, 2018, 12:51 p.m.
    ...descriptions of the lentiviral elements and the 2nd and 3rd Generation Lentiviral Systems can be found...found in our Lentiviral guide. Popular packaging and lentiviral envelope plasmids are listed here. Please...pre-treated with a compound of interest. Lentiviral vectors Popular Lentiviral Transfer Vectors    Expressing your...3rd generation lentiviral vector backbone from the Shih lab. You can find more lentiviral expression vectors...in the genome editing field. Lentiviral Plasmid Kit Multiple Lentiviral Expression System Kit (Kit #1000000060...Murine Stem Cell Virus (MSCV) genomes whereas lentiviral vectors are derived from the human immunodeficiency...use of retroviral delivery systems, especially lentiviral vector-based CRISPR pooled libraries that allow...
  4. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    Jan. 8, 2019, 1:54 p.m.
    ...the last 15 years - the majority of these being lentiviral or CRISPR tools. How many times have these plasmids...Addgene psPAX2  - psPAX2 is a 2nd generation lentiviral packaging plasmid from the Didier Trono lab that...genes. It can be used with 2nd or 3rd generation lentiviral vectors and an envelope expressing plasmid, such...PX458). lentiCRISPR v2 - This 3rd generation lentiviral transfer vector also from the Zhang lab is used...and contains an envelope protein for producing lentiviral and MuLV retroviral particles. It can be used...with packaging plasmids such as pCMV-dR8.2 dvpr (lentiviral) or pUMVC (MuLV retroviral). Fun fact: published...Find pCMV-VSV-G. pRSV-Rev - This 3rd generation lentiviral packaging plasmid from the Trono lab contains...
  5. Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered

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    April 23, 2014, 1:08 p.m.
    ...Addgene's most popular lentiviral plasmids Overview of Lentiviral Packaging Plasmids Lentiviral Protocols and ...Lentiviruses are useful and efficient tools to introduce your gene of interest into cells. Unlike gamma-retroviruses...frequently asked lentiviral questions. This useful resource from Addgene Depositor (and lentiviral expert) Didier...plasmid backbone that was designed specifically for transient expression (find some useful backbones here...cells.  Addgene has an extensive collection of lentiviral plasmids created for a variety of applications... Didier Trono's lab webpage explains how lentiviral particles are produced by co-transfecting three essential...essential ingredients: the lentiviral packaging vector, a transfer vector including the gene of interest...
  6. Tips for Titering Your Lentiviral Preps

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    March 15, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... vector backbones; once validated these universal primers can be used to titer any lentiviral prep that...defective viral particles. Direct measurement of lentiviral RNA is one alternative to direct p24 measurement... for functional assays depending on the vector backbone. When using qPCR based methods for viral titration...transgene expression. The most accurate method of lentiviral titration uses qPCR to measure the number of ...lentivirus Volume and transduction time will influence lentiviral titers as will the target cell type used. Therefore...; the titer measured with a freshly collected lentiviral prep may be significantly higher than the same...concentration and titration of pseudotyped HIV-1-based lentiviral vectors."Nature protocols 4.4 (2009): 495-505...
  7. Pooled Library Amplifications

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    May 30, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...consider if there are any features of the library backbone that would make the library more difficult to ...to work with. For example, a library in a lentiviral backbone might be more prone to recombination, while...while a library with a large backbone might be more difficult to transform.    Figure 1: Factors...other colonies containing smaller, recombined backbones that may replicate faster. For this reason, if...
  8. Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening

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    April 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...digestion and ligation steps to build barcoded lentiviral plasmids containing one or more gRNAs. As each..., the ligation products are a diverse pool of lentiviral plasmids. Multiple rounds of digestion and ligation...CombiGEM-based assembly into the CombiGEM lentiviral vector backbone pAWp12 (Figure 2). Cloning from the pAWp28... pAWp28 storage vector to the pAWp12 lentiviral vector should retain the diversity in your gRNA library...recessive genetic screening in mammalian cells with a lentiviral CRISPR-guide RNA library." Nature biotechnology...
  9. Three Tips for Preventing Viral Plasmid Recombination in Your Samples

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    Sept. 14, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... Viral vectors are prone to recombination In lentiviral vectors, recombination often occurs between the...time, bacteria containing the recombined vector backbone will also outgrow bacteria that contain the full...full length plasmid.   Figure 1: The full lentiviral plasmid is expected to be >12 kb. However if ...smaller plasmids. The ~3.7 kb recombined vector backbone contains the antibiotic resistance gene (AmpR)...noticed that in Stbl3 bacterial cultures with lentiviral vectors, the flat white colonies contained the...E. coli cultures contain the recombined vector backbone. Test multiple colonies before saving a glycerol...different band patterns for the recombined vector backbone vs. the full length plasmid. If you find that ...
  10. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    May 14, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...expressed from different plasmid backbones. They noted that backbone differences such as the order, or...system was used to assess how different lentiviral plasmid backbone elements impact viral titer and to compare...
  11. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    Dec. 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...to create a final lentiviral vector containing up to 5 different elements. Lentiviral vectors constructed... resistances, restriction enzymes and plasmid backbones. pUCXKT contains a nonfunctional truncated version...site in pUCXKT, removing the stop codons during backbone digestion and providing the missing codons for... both kanamycin and ampicillin (from the pUC19 backbone). *False positives can occur in this system if...customized lentivirus production Finding a lentiviral vector backbone with just the right combination of promoter...collection of plasmids comprising the multiple lentiviral expression (MuLE) system from the laboratory ... combinations of genetic elements in a single lentiviral vector provides a powerful tool to modify mammalian...
  12. How to Deposit Your Plasmids with Addgene

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    Feb. 27, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...sequence. Empty backbone A plasmid designed for cloning a gene/insert into it. Empty backbones often contain...present in the backbone or was a part of the insert (when cloned into the vector backbone). If your plasmid...appropriate boxes with the vector backbone manufacturer, vector backbone size, total size of your vector...made to the backbone, and the vector type. Pro Tip! Reference the Addgene ID in the "Backbone Manufacturer...categories (e.g., for a lentiviral vector to be used in mammalian cells, check Lentiviral and Mammalian Expression...library is a set of plasmids all built with the same backbone and only differing in the gene/insert. Pooled ...Insert *Note: This page will not appear for empty backbones Please enter the name of any gene contained within...
  13. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2015!

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    Dec. 30, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...designed to have increased lentiviral titer as compared to previous lentiviral vectors. It can be used both... the Addgene Website Visit our Lentiviral Guide Pages Find Lentiviral Plasmids Find CRISPR Pooled Libraries...purpose As its name suggests, lentiCRISPR v2 is a lentiviral transfer vector used to deliver both Cas9 and... genes respectively, use lentiCRISPR v2 as the backbone for their many gRNAs. The high titer lentivirus...
  14. Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems

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    Aug. 6, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...the plasmid backbone is meant to be descriptive of the components found within the backbone. For example... well as the viral LTRs, differ. As a result, lentiviral and γ-retroviral packaging plasmids are not interchangeable...using 293T cells This method is very similar to lentiviral packaging methods. The three components described...found within both the 5' and 3' LTRs of retro/lentiviral plasmids. U5; Unique 5'; region at the 5' end...
  15. The 10 Most Distributed Plasmid Technologies in Addgene's First 10 Years

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    Jan. 8, 2014, 3:10 p.m.
    ... those are lentiviral constructs. In 2007 we continued to see requests grow for lentiviral packaging and... and empty backbones such as pBABE-puro for retroviral expression and pLVTHM, a lentiviral plasmid for...2006, we saw an increase in popularity of empty backbones for shRNA expression, such as pLKO.1 puro and ...and pLKO.1 – TRC cloning vector. Lentiviral Plasmids -  If you're familiar with the pLKO plasmids you'll...
  16. Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries

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    July 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... for using pooled lentiviral libraries. A) Amplification, validation, and lentiviral generation of a pooled... in the pooled library lentiviral prep. B) Usage of a pooled library lentiviral prep for experiments. .... Most of the pooled libraries at Addgene are lentiviral pooled libraries, though other types exist.  ...plasmids requires amplification, verification, and lentiviral production steps before you can start transducing.... Pooled library lentiviral preps are generally aliquoted to reduce the number of freeze-thaw cycles needed... After functional titer is determined, larger lentiviral preps can be used for screening-scale transduction...with a protocol for a library of similar size and backbone.  Verification Once your library has been amplified...
  17. Giving gRNAs a Facelift - Synthetic and Beyond

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    Oct. 20, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Stabilizing gRNA modifications  Sugar phosphate backbone modifications The recognition sequence for CRISPR-Cas9...modify the sugar or phosphate molecules of the RNA backbone to increase stability.  Nature has evolved ways...replaces a nonbridging phosphate oxygen. Other useful backbone modifications to consider include amide linkages...and a constrained ethyl.  Can’t decide which RNA backbone modification is best? Studies suggest coupling...Request ready-to-use viral preps of select CRISPR lentiviral plasmids Additional resources on the Addgene...
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