Purpose
(Empty Backbone) Self-inactivating 3rd generation lentiviral plasmid for co-expression of your gene of interest and luciferase.
Luciferase is not a virus, it is an enzyme which is a type of protein. What this is saying is that it is using a lentiviral plasmid. A plasmid is a ring of double stranded DNA that is often used for gene cloning. The desired genes are spliced into the plasmid which becomes a recombinant plasmid that can be replicated to produce large quantities of the desired genes.
Luciferase is not a virus, it is an enzyme which is a type of protein. What this is saying is that it is using a lentiviral plasmid. A plasmid is a ring of double stranded DNA that is often used for gene cloning. The desired genes are spliced into the plasmid which becomes a recombinant plasmid that can be replicated to produce large quantities of the desired genes.
Why are they using HIV plasmids? Can't these proteins infect us?