A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 12, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
... investigate how the virus interacts with human cells. Addgene’s mammalian target plasmids express these...for SARS-CoV-2 entry into human lung epithelial cells (Biering et al., 2021). In their search, they found...packaging) and contain an IRES-Puro marker for stable cell clone selection. For more information on these plasmids...Bajic G, Harrison SC, Wesemann DR (2021) Memory B cell repertoire for recognition of evolving SARS-CoV-...depends on its spike protein to bind ACE2, the host cellular receptor. To more easily study the spike variants...