Transduction Efficiency

Transduction efficiency is the proportion of target cells that successfully receive and express genetic material delivered by a viral vector, making it a key measure of gene-delivery performance in medicine. It depends on vector binding and entry into cells, intracellular processing, and factors such as vector dose, cell type, receptor availability, and culture conditions. Measuring efficiency helps researchers optimize gene transfer for gene therapy, engineered immune cells, and other cell-based treatments. High, reproducible transduction can improve therapeutic consistency, while low efficiency may limit gene expression, treatment potency, or the scalability of clinical manufacturing.

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JoVE Journal - Immunology and Infection

Dextran Enhances the Lentiviral Transduction Efficiency of Murine and Human Primary NK Cells

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2018

The goal of this study was to formulate technologies that allow for successful gene transduction in primary natural killer (NK) cells. The dextran-mediated lentiviral transduction of human or mouse primary NK cells results in higher gene expression efficiencies. This method of gene transduction will vastly improve NK cell genetic manipulation.

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JoVE Journal - Medicine
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High-Efficiency Transduction of Liver Cancer Cells by Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Serotype 3 Vectors

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2011

In this article, we describe the identification of the adeno-associated virus serotype 3 (AAV3) as the most efficient vector for targeting human liver cancer cells.

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JoVE Journal - Biology
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In Vivo Imaging of Transduction Efficiencies of Cardiac Targeting Peptide

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2020

We describe protocols for assessing the degree of transduction by cell-penetrating peptides utilizing ex vivo imaging systems followed by paraffin embedding, sectioning, and confocal fluorescent microscopy using cardiac targeting peptide as an example. In our protocol, a single animal can be used to acquire both types of imaging assessment of the same organs, thereby cutting the number of animals needed for studies by half.

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JoVE Journal - Biology
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Targeted Expression of GFP in the Hair Follicle Using Ex Vivo Viral Transduction

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2008

The hair follicle is a highly complex appendage of the skin containing a multiplicity of cell types. The follicle undergoes constant cycling through the life of the organism including growth and resorption with growth dependent on specific stem cells. The targeting of the follicle by genes and stem cells to change its properties, in particular, the nature of the hair shaft is, discussed. Hair follicle delivery systems are described, such as liposomes and viral vectors for gene therapy. The...

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JoVE Core - Microbiology

Transduction

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2025

Among the three main modes of HGT—transformation, conjugation, and transduction—transduction is unique in that it is mediated by bacteriophages, or bacterial viruses.Transduction occurs in two ways. Generalized transduction occurs during the lytic cycle of a bacteriophage infection. In this process, bacteriophages infect bacterial cells, replicate within them, and ultimately cause cell lysis, releasing newly assembled virions. Occasionally, random fragments of the bacterial genome are...

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