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ArticleBiological research2020

Caspase-7 deficiency in Chinese hamster ovary cells reduces cell proliferation and viability.

Fatemeh Safari, Safar Farajnia, Abbas Behzad Behbahani, Habib Zarredar, Mazyar Barekati-Mowahed, Hesam Dehghani

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Article in Biological research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Fatemeh SafariDepartment of Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Advanced Medical Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Safar FarajniaBiotechnology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Daneshgah Ave., Tabriz, Iran. farajnias@tbzmed.ac.ir.
Abbas Behzad BehbahaniDiagnostic Laboratory Sciences and Technology Research Center, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Habib ZarredarTuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Mazyar Barekati-MowahedDepartment of Physiology & Biophysics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Hesam DehghaniDepartment of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences · IRTabriz University of Medical Sciences · IRCase Western Reserve University · USFerdowsi University of Mashhad · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundChinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are the most commonly used mammalian host cell in the commercial-scale production of biopharmaceutical proteins. Modification of genes involved in apoptosis may improve the productivity of CHO cells. Executive caspases, including caspases 3 and 7, play critical roles in apoptosis. The effects of the ablation of the caspase 7 gene on proliferation and viability of CHO cells remains unknown. In this study, we applied clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR/Cas9) to target caspase 7 gene of CHO K1 cell via all in one and homology targeted integration strategies. Consequently, the effect of caspase 7 deficiency on cell proliferation, viability, and apoptosis was studied by MTT assay and flow cytometry.

resultsFindings of gel electrophoresis, western blotting, and sequencing confirmed the caspase 7 gene silencing in CHO cells (CHO-KO). Proliferation assay revealed that caspase 7 deficiency in CHO cells resulted in the reduction of proliferation in various CHO-KO clones. Besides, the disruption of caspase 7 had negative effects on cell viability in exposure with NaBu which confirmed by MTT assay. Results of flow cytometry using Anexin V/PI demonstrated that Nabu treatment (11 mM) declined the percentage of live CHO-K1 and CHO-KO cells to 70.3% and 5.79%. These results verified that the CHO-K1 cells were more resistant to apoptosis than CHO-KO, however most of CHO-KO cells undergone early apoptosis (91.9%) which seems to be a fascinating finding.

conclusionThese results reveal that caspase 7 may be involved in the cell cycle progression of CHO cells. Furthermore, it seems that targeting caspase 7 is not the ideal route as it had previously been imagined within the prevention of apoptosis but the relation between caspase 7 deficiency, cell cycle arrest, and the occurrence of early apoptosis will require more investigation.

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ApoptosisCell ProliferationCell SurvivalAnimalsCaspase 7CHO CellsCricetinaeCricetulusCaspase 7ApoptosisCaspase 7Cell proliferatioCHO cellsCRISPR-associated protein 9

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