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  1. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    ...Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV Viral Vectors 101:...-studied lentivirus is HIV, which many lentiviral tools have been derived from. Lentiviruses have slightly... Galla M, Baum C, Schambach A. Gammaretroviral vectors: biology, technology and application. Viruses. ... with immortalized cell line cultures. Lentivirus Lentivirus is a type of retrovirus and shares many ... commonly used lab viruses: gamma-retrovirus, lentivirus, adenovirus, and adeno-associated virus. Gamma-retrovirus...gamma-retrovirus, coming in around 9 kb. Unlike gamma, lentivirus can infect both dividing and non-dividing cells...nucleus as gamma-retroviruses do. Fun fact: Since lentivirus and gamma-retrovirus are so closely related, ...
  2. Lentiviral Prep Service

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    ...more details about our viral vector packaging service, visit our Viral Vector Packaging Service page . Pooled...Hygro (656-4) GFP Hygromycin 3rd gen lentiviral eGFP expression vector, CMV promoter, Hygro Campeau Viral... Viral Vector Packaging Service Lentivirus Browse In-Stock Lentivirus Pooled ...Ready-to-use lentivirus available from Addgene's viral vector packaging service. Browse constructs currently...available in lentiviral format. Viral...and blasticidin resistance from EFS promoter. Lentiviral backbone. Zhang Cas9 and Accessories for Activating... (D10A, N863A) Blasticidin 3rd generation lenti vector encoding dCAS9-VP64 with 2A Blast resistance marker...
  3. 2023 and 2024: Reflections and Looking Ahead

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    ...comprehensive transcription factor library, in lentiviral vectors. At 3500 plasmids, this represents the largest...upcoming release of the second edition of our Viral Vectors 101 eBook. We’ll also focus on expanding international...
  4. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    ... about Lentiviral Vectors Additional Resources on the Addgene.org Check out Our Viral Vector Guide Pages.... Viral vectors undergo DNA rearrangements. Depending on the composition of the viral vector and the ... one point or another. After amplifying a viral vector, collecting virus, and transducing target cells...the repeat sequences present in the LTR, the vector may undergo genomic rearrangements during replication...genomic rearrangements, try amplifying the viral vector with bacteria designed to minimize rearrangements...have low titers (which is unavoidable for some vectors) you can concentrate your virus by ultracentrifugation...antibiotic whose resistance gene is encoded in the viral vector. This antibiotic selection can be performed approximately...
  5. Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility

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    ...their options for tools such as empty backbones, lentiviral packaging systems, and luciferase expression.... Top Five by Views Guides CRISPR Guide Lentiviral Guide AAV Guide Optogenetics Guide γ-Retrovirus...a Liquid Bacteria Culture Collections Lentiviral Plasmids Tetracyline Inducible Plasmids Empty... CRISPRTwenty Years of Sharing: Addgene's Viral Vector Service...help users get started with tools like CRISPR, lentivirus, and optogenetics — and shared the protocols ...
  6. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    ...expression vectors with various promoters suitable for in vivo expression, and/or produce vectors to make...prototrophic strains. The vectors were based on the original EasyClone vectors (Jensen et al 2013) allow...CDC and cloned into a third generation lentiviral transfer vector. Each gene has been FLAG-tagged for convenient...donor vectors containing mAID and either Neo or Hygro resistance markers with CRISPR/Cas vectors targeting...the authors packaged it into lentivirus and used the resulting lentiviral library to generate a population...Science. 2013. PubMed PMID: 23328393 Wu lab human lentiviral CRISPR library     CRISPR pooled libraries enable... interest and cloned into provided destination vectors using low-cost, one-pot golden gate cloning that...
  7. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    .... At the time, adenoviral vectors were the most commonly used viral vectors for gene delivery, and they... better vector for ocular gene therapy: Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) While other viral vectors such as...gene can be targeted to RPE cells using a lentiviral vector and a clinical trial is ongoing. Moving forward...AdV) and lentivirus (LV) are known to transduce retinal cells, AAV quickly became the vector of choice...technician in a lab using adeno-associated viral vectors (AAVs) to treat an inherited retinal degenerative...tolerate the presence of antigens (such as viral vectors) without triggering a destructive inflammatory ...retina but only transiently. However new viral vectors capable of providing long-term gene expression ...
  8. Twenty Years of Sharing: Addgene's Viral Vector Service

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    ...released Viral Vectors 101 2nd edition — I was incredibly excited when we picked our viral vector service as...titer. Addgene’s Viral Vector Service Besides being complex to use, viral vectors are also difficult both... high quality viral vector service, making an array of ready-to-use viral vectors available to researchers...amount of vectors available and number of requests tell only part of the story. Viral vectors are, after...requests for vectors in the “controls” category, which includes things like viral vectors that deliver...offering our viral vector service because we realized that having reliable ready-to-use vectors made from plasmids...our viral vector selection process to standardize our feedback and evaluation of viral vectors. This process...
  9. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    ...ready-to-use viral vectors from some of our most popular lentiviral and AAV vectors, as well as developing...2017, we had distributed 1,000 ready-to-use viral vector preps. Today, that number has grown to over 114,600...preps. And in 2025, we’ll be expanding our viral vectors service to include AAV Packaged on Request! “I ...research community once more. Our ready-to-use viral vectors were useful for researchers wanting high quality...
  10. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    ...Baradaran’s expertise in viral safety, gene therapy vector development, vaccine development, and assay technologies...Harvard Medical School, he developed the first lentiviral microRNA-based system for polymerase II-regulated...Melina Fan and former Associate Director of Viral Vectors Karen Guerin for the journal Molecular Therapy....
  11. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    ...roughly half the packaging limits of lentiviral and adenoviral vectors. While many transgene will fit within... overviews of three split vector strategies plus one additional split vector strategy for increasing the...homology directed repairs (HDR). Split AAV vector approaches Split vector approaches increase the size of the...copies of both vectors. Examples of use: Halbert et al., 2002 used an overlapping vector with 440 or 1000bp... hybrid vector, as measured by β-galactosidase activity, was 81% of that from a single vector, but significantly...ideal split vector system. Overall the efficiency of transgene expression from split vectors has been inconsistent..., Duan D (2008) A Hybrid Vector System Expands Adeno-associated Viral Vector Packaging Capacity in a Transgene-independent...
  12. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    ...facilitates endosomal escape. Combining Cas9-PAGE with lentiviral sgRNA expression yielded editing of 80–90% in...developed an engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector named AAV.CAP-Mac for non-invasive systemic gene...N.C., Goeden, N. et al. Adeno-associated viral vectors for functional intravenous gene transfer throughout...region VIII of AAV9-X1.1 to that of AAV1. This viral vector has brain endothelial cell-specific tropism, with... by pre-existing antibodies against AAV9-based vectors (and vice versa), enabling repeat dosing. In a ...
  13. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ... as RNAP II promoters is commonly employed in lentiviral and retroviral constructs and we will discuss...discuss these in a future post on viral vector parts. Promoter specificity Aside from choosing a promoter based... Can be induced by IPTG. Commonly found in pET vectors. Very tightly regulated by the lac operators. Good...-inducer fucose Weaker. Commonly found in pBAD vectors. Good for rapid regulation and low basal expression...Browse All Plasmids 101 Posts Learn about Mammalian Vectors Read about Reporter Gene like Luciferase and GFP...
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