Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats
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Blog Post
Published
Oct. 19, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
... but among the most important are the inverted terminal repeats (ITRs). ITRs are the elements that make...and the ITRs are retained with the gene in a recombinant AAV (rAAV) vector (Figure 1). Everything else...outside the ITRs gets left behind.
Figure 1: Recombinant AAV vector with ITRs that flank the gene cassette... Rep78 and Rep68 to initiate replication and a terminal resolution site that serves as the target site...T-shaped structure. The Rep binding element (RBE) and terminal resolution site (trs) are noted. Created with ...serotypes (Wilmott et al., 2019), and different combinations of ITR and capsid serotypes vary in their gene...plasmid DNA with mutated ITR sequences. Using recombinant-deficient bacterial strains such as NEB Stable...