Primer used in the second round of nested PCR for AAV genome amplification.
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PvuII (New England Biolabs)
Restriction enzyme used for linearizing plasmids as PCR templates.
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HotStar polymerase
Used in comparative fidelity studies; found to introduce significant mutations in AAV sequences.
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HEK293 cells
Used in vector production and transfection assays.
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Triple-transfection cell lysates
Vector harvesting for DNA-vector titration studies.
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Firefly luciferase gene (CB7.ffluciferase.rBG)
Transgene packaged in AAV vector to measure infectivity and vector production efficiency.
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Geneious Prime version 2019.2
Used for constructing DNA sequence alignments and phylogenetic analyses (Note: This is software mentioned here just for context but excluded from the final list).