Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid
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Blog Post
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Aug. 11, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
...experiments, making AAV starts with some plasmids. You just need three plasmids to start making AAV:
the packaging...plasmid. ITR sequences are 145 bases each and AAV plasmids have two ITR sequences. The DNA sequence between...specific (Haery et al., 2019). Most AAV transfer plasmids have a promoter, but this element isn’t required...transgene and are located between the ITRs. Transfer plasmids often have two pairs of lox sites which are part...forms a tertiary structure when transcribed which aids in nuclear export of mRNA and helps increase the...ITR.
polyA
The polyadenylation or polyA signal aids in the nuclear export of RNA and RNA translation...