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Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology (IMVZ)

Laboratory for Virus-Host Cell Interactions

In vitro transfection fusion assay

 

Transfection of cells with plasmids expressing glycoproteins gB, gH and gL results in fusion of neighboring cells (= syncytia). After co-transfection of a plasmid encoding GFP syncytia can be measured under the fluorescence microscope.

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