Help - Vaccinia Detection

[Ian A. York]

In article <86nkg3$1934$1 at nntp4.u.washington.edu>,
Nadeem Sheikh <nadeem at bart.rprc.washington.edu> wrote:
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>Background : I employ recombinant vaccinia as vectors, infecting autologous
>B-LCL lines with them.  These infected cells are then used as antigen

Most of the systems that create recombinant vaccinias are based on Bernard
Moss's pSC** vectors.  These put a beta-galactosidase gene into the
recombinant as well as the gene of interest.  Detection and quantitation
of beta-gal is pretty straightforward; we've used it to estimate
recombinant vaccinia infection.  Have you tried this, or do you have some
other recombinant system?

Ian 
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