Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Packaging Plasmid
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Blog Post
Published
Dec. 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
... The three VP proteins assemble into capsid at a 1:1:10 ratio (VP1:VP2:VP3). There are eleven naturally...
Figure 1. The RepCap plasmid and its products. Created with BioRender.com
Replication (rep) gene...Rep78/68 play a key role in AAV genome replication. Replication initiates from the AAV genome ITRs on ...contains the proteins needed for the virus to replicate,
and the transfer plasmid which contains the ...aka the RepCap plasmid encodes two genes: the replication (rep) gene and the capsid (cap) gene. In wild-type... proteins that are required for viral genome replication and packaging: Rep78, Rep68, Rep52, and Rep40... generate a 3’ hydroxyl group needed for DNA replication, Rep78/68 binds the Rep binding element (RBE)...