Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 25, 2023, 1 p.m.
...lentiviral plasmids
Addgene's most popular retroviral plasmids
Addgene's collection of AAV plasmids
Addgene...split across several plasmids (often three), for safety purposes. The primary plasmid with the delivered...often a gene) is called the transfer plasmid while the other plasmids with packaging or replication components...of adenovirus plasmids
Resources on the Addgene blog
Parts of the AAV packaging plasmid
Overview of Lentiviral...This is often cDNA, shRNA, or something similar, and is contained on the transfer plasmid. If expression...will all be ssDNA within the viral particle. The ITRs base pair with each other to allow DNA synthesis ... the dsDNA virus.
Viral packaging and entry
Adenovirus is quite large and has more helper plasmid components...