Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements
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...available in the adenovirus section below!
Fig. 2 - Viral vector components of AAV
Adenovirus
Adenoviruses...genetic cargo, typically an expression construct, to cells/organisms. This is often cDNA, shRNA, or something...perform very similar functions to infiltrate the host cell and deposit viral cargo.
Gene expression
While AAV...what will be delivered and expressed in the host cell from the transfer plasmid.
Viral packaging and entry...altered tropism of AAV to target different tissue or cell types. AAV also requires some back up from adenovirus...promoter that you wish to deliver to your target cells. In adenovirus, the ITRs serve as a type of origin...deficient. This is typically supplied by the production cell line (HEK-293) during production.
Fun fact: There...