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Recent advances in recombinant protein production: BAC-based expression vectors, the bigger the better.

Renate Kunert, Emilio Casanova

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Renate KunertDepartment of Biotechnology, Vienna Institute of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Emilio Casanova
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biotechnology · CZLudwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research · AT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Designing appropriate expression vectors is one of the critical steps in the generation of stable cell lines for recombinant protein production. Conventional expression vectors are severely affected by the chromatin environment surrounding their integration site into the host genome, resulting in low expression levels and transgene silencing. In the past, a new generation of expression vectors and different strategies was developed to overcome the chromatin effects. Bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) are cloning vectors capable of accommodating up to 350 Kb. Thus, BACs can carry a whole eukaryotic locus with all the elements controlling the expression of a gene; therefore, BACs harbor their own chromatin environment. Expression vectors based on BACs containing open/permissive chromatin loci are not affected by the chromatin surrounding their integration site in the host cell genome. Consequently, BAC-based expression vectors containing the appropriate loci confer predictable and high levels of expression over time. These properties make BAC-based expression vectors a very attractive tool applied to the recombinant protein production field.

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Chromosomes, Artificial, BacterialGenetic VectorsRecombinant ProteinsRecombinant Proteinsbacterial artificial chromosomeCHO cellschromatinexpression vectormammalianproducer cell linerecombinant protein productiontransgene

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PMID23680894
PMCPMC3728198
OpenAlexW1979856386

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