Ecotropic Receptor Booster

Description

The Ecotropic Receptor Booster increases the transduction efficiency of cells that are either resistant to infection, or inefficiently infected by ecotropic pseudotyped lentivirus or retrovirus. The Ecotropic Receptor Booster consists of exosome-like particles coated with the mCAT-1 receptor. When applied to target cells, fusion of the exosome-like particles with the host cell plasma membrane temporarily increases surface mCAT-1 receptor, thus allowing for efficient viral transduction.The Ecotropic Receptor Booster renders cells that cannot usually be transduced with ecotropic psuedotyped virus e.g. human celllines susceptible to viral infection. Our products are to be used forResearch Use Only. They may not be used for any other purpose, including, but not limited to, use in humans, therapeutic or diagnostic use, or commercial use of any kind. Our products may not be transferred to third parties, resold, modified for resale, or used to manufacture commercial products or to provide a service to third parties without our prior written approval. Back Receptor boosters are concentrated exosome-like vesicles that are applied to your target cells prior to infection with virus.Boosters result in increased transduction efficiency because treatment increases the cell surface density of the receptor recognized by the lentivirus ecotropic or retrovirus ecotropic or amphotropic . Using this technology, for example, you can coat human cells with the ecotropic receptor which is otherwise absent , enabling them to be transduced with ecotropic retrovirus or ecotropic lentivirus. Back Back Back Required Products License Statement This kit provides a complete retroviral vector packaging system for use with any retroviral vector. It is designed to produce virus that can infect dividing cells from a broad range of mammalian and nonmammalian cell types. The GP2-293 Packaging Cell Line contains only the MoMuLVgagandpolgenes. The viral envelope portion of the packaging function envgene is supplied by transiently co-transfecting one of the Retro-X Universal Packaging Vectors p10A1, pAmpho, pEco, or pVSV-G with the retroviral vector. The pQCLIN Retroviral Vector included in the vector set can be used as a positive control to constitutively express beta-galactosidase in transduced mammalian cells. Back Back Back Back High titer retroviral packaging with a choice of four different retroviral packaging envelopes.GP2-293 Cells were transfected with a Retro-X Q vector expressing the red fluorescent protein DsRed2, and each of the four envelope vectors supplied with the Retro-X Unversal Packaging System. After incubating the transfected GP2-293 cells for 48 hr, 10 ?l of the resulting virus was used to infect NIH 3T3 cells. After 48 hours, titers were measured by flow cytometry. Titers were calculated by multiplying the percent infected cells infectious units by the total cell number, then dividing by the volume of virus ml .Panel A. Ecotropic envelope.Panel B. Amphotropic envelope.Panel C. Dualtropic envelope.Panel D. VSV-G envelope pantropic . Positive cells are indicated by the red line. Negative control cells are indicated by the green line.