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ArticleSynthetic biology (Oxford, England)2022

An arrayed CRISPR screen reveals Myc depletion to increase productivity of difficult-to-express complex antibodies in CHO cells.

Niels Bauer, Benedikt Oswald, Maximilian Eiche, Lisa Schiller, Emma Langguth, Christian Schantz, Andrea Osterlehner, Amy Shen, Shahram Misaghi, Julian Stingele and 1 more

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Article in Synthetic biology (Oxford, England), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Niels BauerLarge Molecule Research, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center Munich, Penzberg, Germany.
Benedikt OswaldLarge Molecule Research, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center Munich, Penzberg, Germany.
Maximilian EicheLarge Molecule Research, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center Munich, Penzberg, Germany.
Lisa SchillerLarge Molecule Research, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center Munich, Penzberg, Germany.
Emma LangguthLarge Molecule Research, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center Munich, Penzberg, Germany.
Christian SchantzLarge Molecule Research, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center Munich, Penzberg, Germany.
Andrea OsterlehnerLarge Molecule Research, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center Munich, Penzberg, Germany.
Amy ShenCell Culture and Bioprocess Operations Department, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Shahram MisaghiCell Culture and Bioprocess Operations Department, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Julian StingeleGene Center and Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich 81377, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6020-2075
Simon AusländerLarge Molecule Research, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center Munich, Penzberg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0428-6977
Roche Pharma AG (Germany) · DELudwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Complex therapeutic antibody formats, such as bispecifics (bsAbs) or cytokine fusions, may provide new treatment options in diverse disease areas. However, the manufacturing yield of these complex antibody formats in Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells is lower than monoclonal antibodies due to challenges in expression levels and potential formation of side products. To overcome these limitations, we performed a clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR associated protein 9 (Cas9)-based knockout (KO) arrayed screening of 187 target genes in two CHO clones expressing two different complex antibody formats in a production-mimicking set-up. Our findings revealed that Myc depletion drastically increased product expression (>40%) by enhancing cell-specific productivity. The Myc-depleted cells displayed decreased cell densities together with substantially higher product titers in industrially-relevant bioprocesses using ambr15 and ambr250 bioreactors. Similar effects were observed across multiple different clones, each expressing a distinct complex antibody format. Our findings reinforce the mutually exclusive relationship between growth and production phenotypes and provide a targeted cell engineering approach to impact productivity without impairing product quality. We anticipate that CRISPR/Cas9-based CHO host cell engineering will transform our ability to increase manufacturing yield of high-value complex biotherapeutics.

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antibody productionarrayed KO screeningCHOCRISPR/Cas9

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PMID36452067
PMCPMC9700384
OpenAlexW4308342170

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