Generation of Recombinant Vaccinia Viruses
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Implication
Laboratory protocol demonstrates recombinant vaccinia virus generation in cultured cells, highlighting optimized selection and amplification procedures.
Key Points
- To outline standard experimental protocols for generating, isolating, amplifying, and detecting recombinant vaccinia virus vectors.
- Infection of host cell cultures with vaccinia virus followed by transfection with plasmid-transfer vectors or PCR fragments.
- Application of selection, screening, and amplification procedures to isolate recombinant viral populations.
- Execution of live immunostaining for the direct detection of recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA).
- Establishes a reliable workflow for introducing foreign DNA sequences into vaccinia viral genomes via homologous recombination.
- Provides screening and amplification protocols capable of isolating pure recombinant viral clones from parental backgrounds.
Cite This Study
Wyatt et al. (2017) studied this question.