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  1. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements

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    July 25, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...Addgene's most popular lentiviral plasmids Addgene's most popular retroviral plasmids Addgene's collection...Parts of the AAV packaging plasmid Overview of Lentiviral Packaging Plasmids Adenoviral production and troubleshooting...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...collection of AAV plasmids Addgene’s collection of adenovirus plasmids Resources on the Addgene blog Parts ... cargo into the host genome. Lentiviral-specific components Lentiviruses have gone through their fair ...vectors and helper plasmids for all the viruses discussed above (gamma-retrovirus, lentivirus, adenovirus, ...
  2. Download Science-Themed Zoom Backgrounds from Addgene

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    April 22, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...popular envelope and packaging plasmids as well as transfer plasmids. Download the orange lentivirus background... and lentiviral preps! Download the green AAV background.       Some of our lentiviral plasmids include...Otherwise, check out our plasmid and DNA backgrounds. Download the blue plasmid background.     You can... the plasmids that Addgene offers by visiting our collections page. Here, you can browse plasmids by field...your favorite reagent, scientific technique, or plasmid repository at your next meeting.     If you’re...cute mascots!  Blugene has been helping us make Plasmids 101 videos and needed a break so they're hanging...background.         We also have ready-to-use lentiviral preps for COVID-19 research, pooled CRISPR lentiirus...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    June 6, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...-studied lentivirus is HIV, which many lentiviral tools have been derived from. Lentiviruses have slightly...and thus do not require breakdown of the nuclear envelope during cell division to enter the nucleus as gamma-retroviruses...their required components are very similar. While plasmids containing virus-specific elements such as the...general, viral components such as a heterologous envelope or a post-transcriptional regulatory element can...integrate, and the addition of a helper virus or plasmid allows it to replicate episomally, essentially ...linear, double stranded DNA genome which is non-enveloped. It can infect humans, many mammals, and even ...-associated Virus (AAV) Guide Addgene’s viral plasmids and resources Addgene’s viral services: AAV ...
  4. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...of the new plasmids, antibodies, and viral preps in the repository through our Hot Plasmids articles. ...DIRECTED plasmids here! Strebinger, D., et al. (2023). Cell type-specific delivery by modular envelope design.... Today, it's time for another edition of Hot Plasmids!  Here's what you'll find in this post:  New...., 2023 under CC-BY 4.0 License. Find PE6 plasmids here!  Doman, J.L., Pandey, S., et al. (2023).... (Delivery to Intended REcipient Cells Through Envelope Design). This modular approach combines an interchangeable...components to reprogram delivery vehicles like lentiviral vectors, CreVLPs, and eVLPs for in vivo and in...pulse-chase experiments, and more. Find LOV-Turbo plasmids here! Next, Qin and Cheah et al. described TransitID...
  5. Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries

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    July 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...appropriate packaging and envelope plasmids into HEK cells allows production of lentivirus. Purification of this...you.  Starting from plasmids requires amplification, verification, and lentiviral production steps before... for using pooled lentiviral libraries. A) Amplification, validation, and lentiviral generation of a pooled...single plasmid transformation, though, a pooled library has hundreds to millions of distinct plasmids, all...anyone who has worked with individual plasmids knows, some plasmids amplify well and others don’t. The size...some of your plasmids didn’t amplify after your screen is completed!  Producing Your Lentiviral Library Once...Pooled Lentiviral CRISPR Libraries- A nice overview of what to consider when using pooled lentiviral CRISPR...
  6. Scientists Map the SARS-CoV-2-Human Interaction Network

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    April 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...in weeks Figure 1: Sending out 80 FedEx envelopes in a single day -- all while maintaining social...vector background, so you can package them into lentiviral vectors if you need to. Additionally, they have...going on there!).  Find the Krogan Lab SARS-CoV-2 plasmids (Note: The Nsp6 construct is undergoing QC and... has been inundated with requests to share our plasmids with other researchers. We have been excited to...Getting our research in line, with a row of FedEx envelopes waiting to be shipped out of the Krogan lab at...Gordon) have been quite busy shipping and sending plasmids to all who request them -- in locations all over...Facebook. Find more COVID-19 and coronavirus related plasmids and resources at Addgene* Many thanks to our...
  7. Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus (and a Viral Vector)?

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    Aug. 18, 2023, 4:15 p.m.
    ... called an envelope. Viruses without an envelope are referred to as naked or non-enveloped, while viruses...viruses with an envelope are called enveloped viruses (Figure 1). Like bacteria, only a tiny fraction of... Dorp, 2017). Figure 1: A non-enveloped virus (left) and an enveloped virus (right). Created using biorender.com...like baby spiders from an egg sac. (Okay, some enveloped viruses bud out, instead of lysing, but they do... particle, which retains the protein coat (and envelope), has a “gutted” genome with genes central to ...the required proteins are packaged in separate plasmids and expressed via cells cultured with the vectors...after the viruses they’re derived from: AAVs, lentivirus, gamma retrovirus, and adenovirus. And now that...
  8. CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods

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    Sept. 24, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    .... Packaging and Envelope plasmids provide the necessary components to make lentiviral particles. Stable...efficiency. Lentiviral transduction Cas9 and gRNA can be present in a single lentiviral transfer vector...add a tag, you will also need to deliver a donor plasmid or single-stranded DNA oligonucleotide, so you ...for in vivo viral delivery. Cas9 mRNA and gRNA Plasmids containing gRNA and Cas9 are used in in vitro ...efficiency of CRISPR delivery. There are a few plasmids at Addgene that have been published as CRISPR ...: Traffic Light Reporter System: Can evaluate lentiviral component delivery as well as genome repair by...User) Resources on Addgene.org Browse CRISPR Plasmids for Mammalian Systems Check out our CRISPR Guide...
  9. Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle

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    July 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...on addgene.org Addgene's Lentiviral Guide Most popular lentiviral plasmids γ-Retrovirus Guide References... the lentiviruses (like HIV-1) — that have been developed into lentiviral vectors. Lentiviruses are sometimes... 1: Gamma-retrovirus genome (left) and an HIV lentiviral genome (right.)  HIV seems an unlikely candidate...host/producer cell membrane, and acquired as an envelope during exocytotic budding, as the viral particle...Addgenie Rebecca Hutcheson for her assistance with lentiviral replication.  Resources and References More ...PMCID: PMC372876 Dong, W., & Kantor, B. (2021). Lentiviral Vectors for Delivery of Gene-Editing Systems ...
  10. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    June 22, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...transfer plasmid), the envelope (Env) gene on a separate plasmid (envelope plasmid), and the polymerase ...different plasmids. For a retroviral system this looks like the genetic cargo in one plasmid (the transfer...Gag structural protein on yet a third plasmid (packaging plasmid). Viral production then proceeds by transfection... transfection of all three plasmids into a producer cell line, such as HEK-293T, production of viral particles... and Pol genes are not encoded in the transfer plasmid, the component that physically integrates into ... retroviral packaging components onto distinct plasmids for safety.    Viral cargo-specific safety...services Addgene Biosafety Guide Addgene Viral Plasmids Which Type of Virus Should I Use? Resources...
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