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ArticleGM crops & food2024

Risk assessment of homologous variants of biotech trait proteins using a bridging approach.

Cunxi Wang, Jennifer Calcaterra, Beverly Anderson, Timothy Rydel, Rong Wang, Lieselot Bertho, Scott A Saracco, Kimberly Hodge-Bell, Luis Burzio, Tommi White and 1 more

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Article in GM crops & food, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Cunxi WangRegulatory Science, Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7772-6200
Jennifer CalcaterraRegulatory Science, Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield, MO, USA.
Beverly AndersonRegulatory Science, Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield, MO, USA.
Timothy RydelPlant Biotechnology, Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield, MO, USA.
Rong WangRegulatory Science, Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield, MO, USA.
Lieselot BerthoRegulatory Science, Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield, MO, USA.
Scott A SaraccoRegulatory Science, Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield, MO, USA.
Kimberly Hodge-BellRegulatory Science, Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield, MO, USA.
Luis BurzioRegulatory Science, Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield, MO, USA.
Tommi WhitePlant Biotechnology, Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield, MO, USA.
Bin LiRegulatory Science, Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield, MO, USA.

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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A transgenic protein is frequently expressed as different homologous variants in genetically modified crops due to differential processing of targeting peptides or optimization of activity and specificity. The aim of this study was to develop a science-based approach for risk assessment of homologous protein variants using dicamba mono-oxygenase (DMO) as a case study. In this study, DMO expressed in the next-generation dicamba-tolerant maize, sugar beet and soybean crops exhibited up to 27 amino acid sequence differences in the N-terminus. Structure modeling using AlphaFold, ESMFold and OpenFold demonstrates that these small N-terminal extensions lack an ordered secondary structure and do not disrupt the DMO functional structure. Three DMO variants were demonstrated to have equivalent immunoreactivity and functional activity ranging from 214 to 331 nmol/min/mg. Repeated toxicity studies using each DMO variant found no test substance-related adverse effects. These results support that homologous protein variants, which have demonstrated physicochemical and functional equivalence, can leverage existing safety data from one variant without requiring additional

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Plants, Genetically ModifiedZea maysAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBeta vulgarisBiotechnologyCrops, AgriculturalGlycine maxPlant ProteinsRisk AssessmentPlant ProteinsBridgingfunctional equivalence and DMOhomologous protein variantssafety assessment

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PMID39520709
PMCPMC11552266

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