Product Overview
Pseudotyped VSV-SARS-CoV-2 S-ΔG-Luciferase (C.37, Lambda) encodes the antigenomic-sense (or positive-sense) RNA of a replicaton-restricted recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (rVSV) in which the glycoprotein (G) gene has been replaced with the firefly luciferase (Fluc) reporter gene and SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (G75V, T76I, R246N, del247-253, L452Q, F490S, D614G, T859N) is incorporated as the membrane protein on the surface of the VSV pseudotyped virus. Because the infectivity of Pseudotyped VSV-SARS-CoV-2 S-ΔG-Luciferase is restricted to a single round of replication, the pseudotypes can be handled using BSL-2 containment practices. The pseudotype VSV particles encode luciferase together with the VSV nucleocapsid (N), phosphoprotein (P), glycoprotein (G), and large polymerase subunit (L) in their pVSV-ΔG vector. When the VSV pseudovirus infect the target cells, luciferase expression is proportional to the number of cells that were infected