Excellent Transduction Reagent

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Immunology
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Company:

Takara

Product Name:

RetroNectin

Catalog Number:

T100B

Our group is interested in using TCRs for therapeutic purposes. As such, for our experiments we commonly transduced TCR constructs or other proteins to primary cells and cell lines. Retronectin is our regent of choice to increase our transduction efficiency.

Experimental Design and Results Summary

Application

Retroviral Transduction

Starting Material

Primary PBMCs or cell lines

Tips

For primary cells and precious material we use the same aliquot of retronectin twice. For cell lines we store the used retronectin in -20 and that/use it 6+ times.

Results Summary

The transduction efficiency using retroviruses as the delivery method is much higher when retronectin is used.

DOI or PMID #

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Summary

The Good

Easy to use, works well.

The Bad

Very expensive.

The Bottom Line

The regent works well and is reliable between batches. Definitely worth using when the material is precious and the highest transduction efficiency is required. It is however very expensive.

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