Adenoviral Titration Kits

Clontech offers two kits for rapidly titrating recombinant adenovirus:

• The Adeno-X™ Rapid Titer Kit allows functional, hexon-based titration
• The Adeno-X qPCR Titration Kit allows ultra-fast, qPCR-based titration

Adeno-X™ Rapid Titer Kit

The Adeno-X Rapid Titer Kit provides a quick and simple antibody based-assay that can be used to titrate any first-generation E1-deleted adenovirus (1). The kit is designed around a hexon-specific antibody, which is used to label infected cells. Hexon protein is encoded by the adenoviral genome and is an essential component of the adenoviral capsid required for adenoviral replication, but its expression depends on the E1 gene product. Thus, E1 trans-complementing cell types such as HEK 293 (2) can be used to measure infectious activity because only infected cells will produce the hexon protein. The Rapid Titer assay takes 1–2 hours to set up and another 3 hours (two days later) to label, stain, and count infected cells. Each stained cell corresponds to a single infectious unit (Figure 1).

Adeno-X qPCR Titration Kit

The Adeno-X qPCR Titration Kit provides an extremely fast, simple, and accurate method for titrating adenoviral stocks from all Ad5-based adenoviral vectors, including recombinant adenovirus created with our Adeno-X Expression Systems. The protocol combines qPCR and SYBR^® Green chemistry, allowing you to determine the viral genome copy number in adenoviral preparations (i.e., crude lysates or purified stocks) from a calibrated DNA standard curve (Figure 2). The kit delivers results in just 4 hours, and because qPCR titration is so fast, target cells can be infected with accurately titrated virus on the same day the virus is harvested.