Lentiviral Vectors
Lentiviral vectors have evolved over the last decade as powerful, reliable, and safe tools for stable gene transfer in a wide variety of mammalian cells. Contrary to other vectors derived from oncoretroviruses, they allow for stable gene delivery into most nondividing primary cells. In particular, lentivectors (LVs) derived from HIV-1 have gradually evolved to display many desirable features aimed at increasing both their safety and their versatility. This is why lentiviral vectors are becoming the most useful and promising tools for genetic engineering, to generate cells that can be used for research, diagnosis, and therapy. This chapter describes protocols and guidelines, for production and titration of LVs, which can be implemented in a research laboratory setting, with an emphasis on standardization in order to improve transposability of results between laboratories. We also discuss latest designs in LV technology.
- Self-Inactivating Lentiviral Vectors and a Sensitive Cre-loxP Reporter System
- Localized Random Polymerase Chain Reaction Mutagenesis
- Assaying Dicer-Mediated miRNA Maturation by Means of Fluorescent Substrates
- Gene Delivery to Hematopoietic Stem Cells Using Lentiviral Vectors
- The Electrical Properties of Olfactory Receptors in the Development of Biological Smell Sensors
- Development of Replication-Defective Herpes Simplex Virus Vectors
- High-Throughput Expression in Microplate Format in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping for Complex Disease Genes
- Temporal Temperature Gradient Electrophoresis for Detection of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
- Design and Construction of Recombinant Vaccinia Viruses