"Development of a Self-Inactivating Lentivirus Vector."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Virology, "We have constructed a new series of lentivirus vectors based on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) that can transduce nondividing cells. The U3 region of the 5' long terminal repeat (LTR) in vector constructs was replaced with the cytomegalovirus (CM) promoter, resulting in Tat-independent transcription but still maintaining high levels of expression. A self-inactivating (SIN) vector was constructed by deleting 133 bp in the U3 region of the 3' LTR, including the TATA box and binding sites for transcription factors Sp1 and NF-kappa B. The deletion is transferred to the 5' LTR after reverse...

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