Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems
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Blog Post
Published
Aug. 6, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
...provides the widest tropism or range of cells a virus can infect.
Note: While both lentiviruses and γ-retroviruses...modify tropism. Briefly, different envelope plasmids can direct the production of virus with various tropisms...HIV for lentivirus). Additionally, γ-retroviruses can only transduce dividing cells because they are only... breakdown of the nuclear envelope. Lentiviruses can transduce both dividing and non-dividing cells because...plasmids or the packaging cell line. γ-Retroviruses can transduce target cells, but the transduced target...Are γ-retroviruses self-inactivating (SIN)?
They can be. Plasmids that encode SIN γ-retrovirus lack most...widespread use of γ-retroviruses (gamma-retroviruses) in cancer and stem cell research has prompted the development...