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ArticleResearch in pharmaceutical sciences2020

Design, construction, and expression of recombinant human interferon beta gene in CHO-s cell line using EBV-based expression system.

Mohadeseh Shayesteh, Fahimeh Ghasemi, Fatemeh Tabandeh, Bagher Yakhchali, Mehdi Shakibaie

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Article in Research in pharmaceutical sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mohadeseh ShayestehDepartment of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, I.R. Iran.
Fahimeh GhasemiDepartment of Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, I.R. Iran.
Fatemeh TabandehDepartment of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, I.R. Iran.
Bagher YakhchaliDepartment of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, I.R. Iran.
Mehdi ShakibaieDepartment of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, I.R. Iran.
National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology · IRBirjand University of Medical Sciences · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

background and purposeCodon optimization has been considered as a powerful strategy to increase the expression level of protein therapeutics in mammalian cells. As an empirical approach to study the effects of the codon usage and GC content on heterologous gene expression in suspension adapted Chinese hamster ovary (CHO-s) cells, we redesigned the recombinant human interferon beta (rhIFN- β) gene based on the codon preference of the CHO cell in a way to increase the GC content in the third position of each codon. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH: The nucleotide sequence of the codon-optimized rhIFN-β was synthesized in parallel with the wild-type and expressed transiently in CHO-s cells using Epstein-Bar virus (EBV)-based expression system. The protein expression of the rhIFN-β by codon-optimized and wild-type genes were quantified using ELISA test. FINDINGS /

resultsThe results indicated a 2.8-fold increase in the expression level of the biologically active form of the rhIFN-β by codon-optimized sequence. CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS: These results shed light on the capability of codon optimization to create a stable CHO cell for scaling up the production of recombinant therapeutics such as rhIFN-β.

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CHO-s cellsCodon optimizationEBV-based expression systemHuman interferon betaRecombinant protein production

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