Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells
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...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...in mammalian cells is relatively quick. After transfection, HEK-293T cells start producing virus within...systems, it is standard to do only one passage (transfection). This differs from typical insect cell preparations...called a bacmid. Like AAV and lentiviral packaging plasmids, bacmids are readily available, so the amount ...