Regulation of glutamine synthetase in cultured Chinese hamster cells. Induction and repression by glutamine.

Biochemical and molecular analysis of glutamine synthetase gene in brassica napus L.

Chinese Hamster Liver Glutamine Synthetase

Purification procedures to prepare homogeneous glutamine synthetase from Chinese hamster liver and a sensitive radioisotope assay for the enzyme are described. The enzyme has a molecular weight of 335,000 as determined by sedimentation in a glycerol gradient, and consists of 8 identical subunits with molecular weights of 42,000 as determined by mobility in sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide ...

Characterization of single step albizziin-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cell lines with elevated levels of asparagine synthetase activity.

The amino acid analog, albizziin, which acts as a competitive inhibitor of asparagine synthetase with respect to glutamine was used to isolate mutants of Chinese hamster ovary cells with alterations in levels of the target enzyme. These mutant lines have been characterized biochemically and genetically. Mutants selected in a single step are up to 40-fold more resistant to the drug than the pare...

A streamlined implementation of the glutamine synthetase-based protein expression system

BACKGROUND The glutamine synthetase-based protein expression system is widely used in industry and academia for producing recombinant proteins but relies on the cloning of transfected cells, necessitating substantial investments in time and handling. We streamlined the production of protein-producing cultures of Chinese hamster ovary cells using this system by co-expressing green fluorescent pr...

Glutamine protects Chinese hamster ovary cells from radiation killing.

Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells were propagated in vitro and exposed to varying doses of ionizing radiation. The surviving fraction of cells was determined, being found to be a function of the radiation dose. The cell survival curves obtained as a function of radiation dose were modified by the inclusion of varying doses of glutamine in the medium with glutamine demonstrating a radioprotectiv...