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Phoenix is a second-generation retrovirus producer cell line for the generation of helper-free ecotropic and amphotropic retroviruses.
The unique feature of this cell line is that it is highly transfectable with either calcium phosphate mediated transfection or lipid-based transfection protocols-- up to 50% or higher of cells can be transiently transfected.
Phoenix-GP expresses only gag-pol and is available for further pseudotyping of retroviral virions with other envelope proteins such as gibbon ape leukemia virus envelope or Vesicular stomatitus VSV-G protein.
HEK 293T/17 cells were transformed with adenovirus E1a carrying a temperature sensitive T antigen co-selected with neomycin. Transformation was brought about by the insertion of approximately 4.5 kilobases of viral genome into human chromosome 19.
The Phoenix-GP cell line does not express any envelope, and therefore can readily be pseudotyped with envelope of choice, such as VSV-G protein envelope.
Note: Culture to ≤80% confluence to prevent the cells from sloughing
CSF1PO: 11,12
D13S317: 12,14
D16S539: 9,13
D5S818: 8,9
D7S820: 11TH01: 7, 9.3
TPOX: 11vWA: 16,19
Amelogenin: X
Swift S et al. Rapid Production of Retroviruses for Efficient Gene Delivery to Mammalian Cells Using 293T Cell-Based Systems. Current Protocols in Immunology,Unit 10.17C, 2001
Pear WS, et al. Production of High-Titer Helper-Free Retroviruses by Transient Transfection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90: 8392-8396, 1993. PubMed: 7690960
Nolan Laboratory Retroviral Systems. Phoenix helper-free retrovirus producer lines, https://web.stanford.edu/group/nolan/_OldWebsite/retroviral_systems/retsys.html
