This chapter provides detailed step-by-step instructions for the production of lentiviral particles and the transduction of primary human glioblastoma cultures. Lentiviruses stably transduce both dividing and non-dividing cells, such as quiescent cancer stem cell populations. The viral envelope is pseudotyped with the vesicular stomatitis virus envelope glycoprotein G (VSV-G), which renders the lentiviral particles pantropic, so that they can infect theoretically all cell types. The third generation packaging system used in this protocol produces lentiviruses with important safety features, including replication incompetence and self-inactivation (SIN). The protocol we describe here leads to transduction of primary human glioblastoma cultures with efficiencies of up to 90%.
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Frenster, J. D., Inocencio, J., & Placantonakis, D. G. (2018). Lentiviral transduction of primary human glioblastoma cultures. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1741, pp. 81–89). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7659-1_6
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