Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts as protein factories
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Protein-based therapeutics are the fastest growing sector of drug development, mainly because of the high sensitivity and specificity of these molecules. Their high specificity leads to few side effects and excellent success rates in drug development. However, the inherent complexity of these molecules restricts their synthesis to living cells, making recombinant proteins expensive to produce. In addition to therapeutic uses, recombinant proteins also have a variety of industrial applications and are important research reagents. Eukaryotic algae offer the potential to produce high yields of recombinant proteins more rapidly and at much lower cost than traditional cell culture. Additionally, transgenic algae can be grown in complete containment, reducing any risk of environmental contamination. This system might also be used for the oral delivery of therapeutic proteins, as green algae are edible and do not contain endotoxins or human viral or prion contaminants.
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The plastid genome of Chlamydomonas has been successfully transformed and has become a consistent method for heterologous protein expression.
“the plastid genome of Chlamydomonas has been successfully transformed and has become a consistent method for heterologous protein expression [117,118]”
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- Authors
- Mayfield, S. P., Manuell, A. L., Chen, S., Wu, J., Tran, M., Siefker, D., Muto, M., & Marin-Navarro, J.
- Affiliations
- Scripps Research Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mayfield, Stephen P
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Biotechnology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007-04
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 126-133
- ISSN
- 0958-1669 (ISSN-L)
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- W1979062116
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- 0.73
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM054659)
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biotechnology › Transgenic Plants and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Algal biology and biofuel production
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects
- Keywords
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, chloroplasts, recombinant protein expression, therapeutic proteins, transgenic algae, algal bioreactors, industrial protein production
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Chloroplasts, Genetic Vectors, Recombinant Proteins, Transfection, Viruses, Protein Engineering, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Chlamydophila
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