Wu HC, Cha HJ, Bentley WE. Evaluating Baculovirus Infection Using Green Fluorescent Protein and Variants.
Methods Mol Biol 2016;
1350:447-59. [PMID:
26820872 DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4939-3043-2_22]
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Abstract
By use of a strategy incorporating the green fluorescent protein (GFP), facile and rapid monitoring and visualization of baculovirus infection in insect cells is possible in vivo. This chapter describes two techniques for simple determination of virus titer in the baculovirus expression system using GFP co-expression and rapid monitoring of Sf-9 insect cell infection using a combination of GFP and the early-to-late (ETL) promoter of the virus vector. Because of its early appearance, GFP, when placed under the control of ETL promoter, will facilitate vector construction, virus isolation, and titer determination.
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