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  1. Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1

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    May 9, 2017, 2:12 p.m.
    ...Sakuma et al   Multiplexed Lentiviral Expression Cassettes lentiviral transduction One vector expresses...expressing the Cpf1 multiplex system from a lentiviral vector.  Lentiviruses carry a (+) strand RNA copy of the... multiple expression platforms: transfection, lentiviral transduction, and AAV transduction.  In most ...Cpf1. This means Cpf1 can bind and cleave the lentiviral RNA, preventing packaging of the virus.  Reversing...and in vivo. For these experiments, cells were infected with a 1:1 ratio of two AAVs,  one expressing ...a crRNA array plus a GFP tag. Four weeks post-infection, there was strong expression of Cpf1 and GFP in... options for Cpf1 multiplexing: Transfection, lentivirus, and AAV Cpf1’s ability to process its own pre-crRNA...
  2. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    April 17, 2018, 1:37 p.m.
    ... for clinical applications.     LentiviralLentiviral vectors infect dividing and nondividing cells and... a cancer-like phenotype in infected cells. Like retroviruses, lentiviral delivery is not considered safe...Excisable Cre-lox lentiviral vectors: This approach is the same as using a standard lentiviral vector, but ...retroviruses. Retroviral vectors, such as pMXs or pMSCV, infect dividing cells, and have a higher efficiency of...available from Addgene. Another drawback is that lentiviral vectors insert in different genetic locations...could be affected by the location of insertion. Lentiviral insertion can also disrupt the expression of ... Viral Vectors Adenovirus: Adenoviral vectors infect dividing and nondividing cells and have an ~8kb...
  3. Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection

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    June 25, 2019, 12:54 p.m.
    ...This can be done with lentiviral and Adeno Associated Viruses (AAV). Lentiviral and AAV can be used to...releasing the newly formed viral particles that can infect other bacteria. In the lysogenic cycle, the phage... transduction. Transferred DNA once inside the infected bacterium can either exist as transient extrachromosomal...division. You can find all kinds of different lentiviral and AAV plasmids as well as ready-to-use viral...
  4. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    June 6, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...transduce (infect) a wide range of cell types with a high efficiency. However, gamma-retrovirus infection is ...maximum titer, a plus for production and infection. This virus can infect dividing and non-dividing cells and...-studied lentivirus is HIV, which many lentiviral tools have been derived from. Lentiviruses have slightly...gamma-retrovirus, coming in around 9 kb. Unlike gamma, lentivirus can infect both dividing and non-dividing cells. Lenti...complementary DNA copies of their genome upon infecting a host cell. This viral DNA (also called proviral...to dividing cells only, so is not suitable for infection of quiescent cells or infrequently cycling cells... small, single-stranded DNA parvovirus. AAV can infect humans and some other mammals but is not currently...
  5. Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus

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    March 17, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...minigenomes are incapable of producing infectious virus (similar to lentiviral vectors) because they do not encode... its own RNA-dependent RNA polymerase into the infected cells. The EBOV polymerase replicates the viral...as viral mRNAs would be in the course of viral infection), producing firefly luciferase. Firefly luciferase...absence of some viral proteins (compared to viral infection). Therefore, the roles/functions of individual...Addgene.org Browse Our Viral Vector Plasmids Read Our Lentiviral Vector Guide Read Our AAV Guide  ...Department of Microbiology, National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratories.  She is interested in genome...
  6. Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells

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    Nov. 5, 2024, 8:32 p.m.
    ...-293T cells. If you titrate your viral preps, lentiviral titration requires an additional couple of days...baculovirus, a family of viruses that specifically infect insects. This is what makes insect cells a popular...require cloning specific AAV or lentiviral machinery into a baculovirus plasmid. Production of baculovirus...baculovirus construct, called a bacmid. Like AAV and lentiviral packaging plasmids, bacmids are readily available... round of virus, called P1 (or sometimes P0), infecting new Sf9 cells, and getting an amplified P2 virus...cells Viruses AAV and lentivirus Baculovirus; can produce AAV and lentivirus if needed # of plasmids...Overcoming the Challenges of Lentivirus Production Tips for Titering Your Lentivirus Preps More resources on...
  7. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements

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    July 25, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ... cargo into the host genome. Lentiviral-specific components Lentiviruses have gone through their fair ...protein that can also be pseudotyped to alter infectivity. Next, the virus must assemble and have appropriate...for gamma-retroviruses. While not required for lentiviral production, they can be helpful for certain applications... applications and aid in ease of use. Our lentiviral guide outlines these components.     Fig....Resources on Addgene.org Addgene's most popular lentiviral plasmids Addgene's most popular retroviral plasmids...Parts of the AAV packaging plasmid Overview of Lentiviral Packaging Plasmids Adenoviral production and ...function. Lentivirus/gamma-retrovirus Lentiviruses are a class of retrovirus (so all lentiviruses are retroviruses...
  8. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    Aug. 11, 2016, 2:23 p.m.
    ...successfully transfected and produced infectious virus, they may get infected with this virus, and therefore,...number of infectious particles in a given viral stock will give you a sense of the infectivity of your ...An estimated 320,000 viruses can infect mammals. Even more abundant are the Earth’s estimated 1031 bacteriophages...bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria), many of which are doing important work in our microbiomes...al., 1999). 5. Check your packaging cells for infection If your transductions aren’t working, you can ...microscope and should appear fluorescent if they were infected. While there may be some low-level fluorescent...if the virus does not have the proper tropism to infect the packaging cells. Another method of ensuring...
  9. Hot Plasmids - June 2020 - Barcoded CRISPR Library, Sparse Cell Labeling, Calcineurin Reporter, and DNA Staining Dye Alternative

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    June 2, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...their loop region. After infecting cells with sgRNAiBAR library containing lentiviral vectors the iBARs can... CRISPR screens require a low multiplicity of infection (MOI) during cell library construction to ensure...data even when used at a high multiplicity of infection, because this setup allows for experimental replicates...
  10. Multiplexed Overexpression of Regulatory Factors (MORF) collection

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    March 30, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Blog Learn More about Lentivirus Figure out How to Get the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction Additional... individually overexpressed and available for lentiviral packaging and delivery to target cells as a pooled... Fig. 1: Barcoded TF library was packaged in lentiviral particles and used to transduce human embryonic...the Zhang lab controlled their multiplicity of infection so that a single TF was delivered to each cell...
  11. CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods

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    Sept. 24, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...efficiency. Lentiviral transduction Cas9 and gRNA can be present in a single lentiviral transfer vector...plasmids provide the necessary components to make lentiviral particles. Stable, tunable expression of Cas9...Transient or stable expression of SaCas9 and/or gRNA. Infects dividing and non-dividing cells. AAV is least toxic...: Traffic Light Reporter System: Can evaluate lentiviral component delivery as well as genome repair by...Difficulty Very easy Very hard Viral delivery   Lentivirus Retrovirus AAV Cells Dividing or nondividing...
  12. Top Requested AAV of 2017: pmSyn1-EBFP-CRE

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    Jan. 17, 2018, 2:57 p.m.
    ... and requests are still pouring in! While our lentiviral service is going strong, the AAV service has ...partially control which cells are successfully infected by an AAV by altering your injection site and ...
  13. Reagent Repositories Are Speeding up Science During the Pandemic

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    Aug. 4, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Look DC, Perlman S (2006) Lethal Infection of K18-hACE2 Mice Infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome...proven useful to the study of SARS-CoV-2 are the lentiviral production and packaging vectors VSV-G and psPAX2...
  14. Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning

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    Jan. 12, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...recombination reactions that take place when lambda phage infects bacteria. In vivo, these recombination reactions...Gateway cloning to generate our desired constructs: lentiviral expression of the human KRAS gene in mammalian...level, and experimental purpose. For mammalian lentiviral expression, we could use a vector like pLenti...available at Addgene, including the Frew Lab Multiple Lentiviral Expression Systems (MuLE) Kit, the MultiSite ...
  15. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Serotypes and Tissue Tropism

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    Jan. 16, 2025, 3:42 p.m.
    ...viral capsid is the key that lets AAVs “unlock” and infect specific cells. This protein shell packages the...briefly: AAVrg is derived from AAV2 and engineered to infect neurons and undergo retrograde transport, traveling...essential receptor for adeno-associated virus infection. Nature, 530(7588), 108–112. https://doi.org/10.1038...Kidney by Adenovirus, Adeno-Associated Virus, and Lentiviral Vectors After Intravenous and Direct Kidney Injections...
  16. Viral Production at Addgene

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    Oct. 24, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Concentrated lentiviral preparations (“-LVC” catalog items) are generated from lentiviral preparations...being frozen. Specifically, lentiviral particles are collected from the lentiviral preparation by precipitation...for in our reported titers. Lentiviral vectors are titered using a lentiviral droplet digital PCR (ddPCR...Browse our AAV vector collection. Lentivirus Production Lentiviral preparations ("-LV” catalog items)...of the transfer plasmid.   Lentivirus resources Browse lentiviral preps available from Addgene. After... Feschenko, M. (2018). Determination of Lentiviral Infectious Titer by a Novel Droplet Digital PCR Method...through how we produce both our AAV preps and our lentiviral preps.   Viruses are generated using standard...
  17. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    June 22, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...continue the infection cycle once inside the host. While the virus can still enter (and thus infect) cells,...useful because they’re derived from viruses that can infect people, cells, and animals. Some of these viruses...how to keep the replication of virus and its infectivity in check. Engineering controls, safety systems...or anyone else in the lab or community would be infected by a lab-grown virus, it's important to understand...integrate into the host genome as part of the viral infection process (though it can integrate at chromosome...viruses grown in the lab are gamma retrovirus, lentivirus, adenovirus, and adeno-associated virus (AAV)...humans, earning this virus a BSL-2 classification. Lentivirus (a type of retrovirus) and gamma retrovirus require...
  18. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    Dec. 22, 2016, 3:03 p.m.
    ...the authors packaged it into lentivirus and used the resulting lentiviral library to generate a population...Science. 2013. PubMed PMID: 23328393 Wu lab human lentiviral CRISPR library     CRISPR pooled libraries enable...regulate the ability of WNV to induce cell death in infected cells (SEL1L, UBE2J1, EMC3, EMC2, DERL2, UBE2G2...Library. This complex second-generation CRISPR lentiviral library targets nearly all human protein-coding...from the CDC and cloned into a third generation lentiviral transfer vector. Each gene has been FLAG-tagged...apicomplexan organism Toxoplasma gondii to the infection of human fibroblasts. Toxoplasma mutants were ... genes were investigated for functions during infection of human cells, and one of them called “claudin-like...
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