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ReviewBiotechnology letters2022

Current trends in biopharmaceuticals production in Escherichia coli.

L McElwain, K Phair, C Kealey, D Brady

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Review in Biotechnology letters, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed
8.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

L McElwainEnviroCORE, Department of Applied Science, South East Technological University, SETU Carlow, Kilkenny Road, Carlow, R93V960, Ireland.
K PhairEnviroCORE, Department of Applied Science, South East Technological University, SETU Carlow, Kilkenny Road, Carlow, R93V960, Ireland.
C KealeyDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biotechnology, Technical University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, Athlone Campus, Dublin Road, Kilmacuagh, Athlone, N37 HD68, County Westmeath, Ireland.
D BradyEnviroCORE, Department of Applied Science, South East Technological University, SETU Carlow, Kilkenny Road, Carlow, R93V960, Ireland. damien.brady@setu.ie.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3648-3302
South East Technological University · IE

Funding

Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology GOIPG/2021/1257
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the manufacture of the first biotech product for a fledgling biopharmaceutical industry in 1982, Escherichia coli, has played an important role in the industrial production of recombinant proteins. It is now 40 years since the introduction of Humulin® for the treatment of diabetes. E. coli remains an important production host, its use as a cell factory is well established and it has become the most popular expression platform particularly for non-glycosylated therapeutic proteins. A number of significant inherent obstacles in the use of prokaryotic expression systems to produce biologics has always restricted production. These include codon usage, the absence of post-translational modifications and proteolytic processing at the cell envelope. In this review, we reflect on the contribution that this model organism has made in the production of new biotech products for human medicine. This will include new advancements in the E. coli expression system to meet the biotechnology industry requirements, such as novel engineered strains to glycosylate heterologous proteins, add disulphide bonds and express complex proteins. The biopharmaceutical market is growing rapidly, with two production systems competing for market dominance: mammalian cells and microorganisms. In the past 10 years, with increased growth of antibody-based therapies, mammalian hosts particularly CHO cells have dominated. However, with new antibody like scaffolds and mimetics emerging as future proteins of interest, E. coli has again the opportunity to be the selected as the production system of choice.

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Biological ProductsEscherichia coliAnimalsBiotechnologyCricetinaeCricetulusHumansRecombinant ProteinsBiological ProductsRecombinant ProteinsCodon usageDisulphide bondE. coliExpression systemGlycosylationK-12

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PMID35796852
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