Overcoming the Challenges of Lentiviral Production
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 7, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
...high titer virus for transfer plasmids with small inserts (such as CRISPR guides) while a single 72h harvest... This is due to inefficient packaging of large inserts; a study by Kumar et al. found that in some cases...titers can drop 10-fold for every 2kb increase in insert size. To overcome this, lentivirus can be concentrated...require an ultracentrifuge, PEG will precipitate all proteins in a solution, not just the lentivirus; consequently...