Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Packaging Plasmid
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Blog Post
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Dec. 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
...C-terminal regions of the Rep proteins. While the unique N-terminal domain of Rep78 and Rep68 contains a DNA-...experiment:
the packaging plasmid which contains the AAV structural and packaging genes,
the adenoviral...on the packaging plasmid and take a look at each of its parts.
Key elements of the AAV packaging plasmid...trans, freeing up space in the viral genome so that a gene of interest can be packaged into the virus instead...plasmid
The packaging plasmid aka the RepCap plasmid encodes two genes: the replication (rep) gene and the...are required for viral genome replication and packaging: Rep78, Rep68, Rep52, and Rep40. Rep gene expression...Rep proteins from the AAV2 serotype are used to package vector genomes flanked by AAV2 ITRs into a capsid...