Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells
Type
Blog Post
...three plasmids — a transfer plasmid containing your gene of interest plus two packaging plasmids (three...baculovirus plasmid. Production of baculovirus requires only two plasmids — your transfer plasmid and the ...three packaging plasmids for 3rd generation lentivirus production). The packaging plasmids are widely available...to worry about cloning your transfer plasmid. The transfer plasmids have different packaging capacities...called a bacmid. Like AAV and lentiviral packaging plasmids, bacmids are readily available, so the amount ...insect and mammalian systems. Baculovirus transfer plasmids have a much larger packaging capacity — up to ...can produce AAV and lentivirus if needed
# of plasmids
Three or four
Two
Packaging limit
~4.7 kb (AAV...