Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells express only a trace amount of phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PEMT) activity. CHO cells make their phosphatidylcholine (PC) via the CDP-choline pathway. We investigated whether or not overexpression of PEMT2, an isoform of PEMT, in these cells would down-regulate the activity of the CDP-choline pathway. Transfection of CHO cells with PEMT2 cDNA b...

Insulin is the most commonly used growth factor for sustaining cell growth and viability in serum-free Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell cultures. In the present study insulin and IGF-1 analogue (LongR(3)) were compared for their ability to support growth, viability, and production of two serum-free CHO cell lines expressing recombinant protein. The first cell line, VA12, expresses protein B, an...

Teicoplanin is a glycopeptide antibiotic with a wide variation in human serum half-life. It is also a valuable alternative of vancomycin. There is however no study on its effect on cultured cells. The aim of the present study was to test the effect of teicoplanin on cultured cell lines CHO, Jurkat E6.1 and MCF-7. The cultured cells were exposed to teicoplanin at final concentrations of 0-11000 ...

The biopharmaceutical sector has become a significant segment of pharmaceutical industry. More than 200 biopharmaceutical products have reached market approval and more than 350 additional products are currently in clinical trials [1]. Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are the main host for production of recombinant therapeutic proteins. The 2011 CHO-produced biopharmaceutical sales were nearly...

Background CHO (Chinese Hamster Ovary) cells are the cell line of choice for therapeutic protein production. Although the achieved volumetric titers have increased significantly over the past two decades, the establishment of wellproducing CHO cell lines is still difficult and not always successful [1]. Factors influencing productivity are the chosen host cell line, the genetic vectors, applied...

BACKGROUND Recombinant cell lines developed for therapeutic antibody production often suffer instability or lose recombinant protein expression during long-term culture. Heterogeneous gene expression among cell line subclones may result from epigenetic modifications of DNA or histones, the protein component of chromatin. We thus investigated in such cell lines, DNA methylation and the chromatin...

Since 1957 Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are used for in vitro cultivation as they require assimilable low sustenance [1]. Today, CHO cell lines represent the most commonly used mammalian expression system for the production of therapeutic proteins and are considered as the mammalian equivalent of E. coli in research and biotechnology [2]. The production of biopharmaceuticals in CHO cells i...

Background: The expression of bio-therapeutic proteins in mammalian cells, such as CHO, attains high homogeneity related to post-translational modifications. Although CHO remains the most popular cell line for bestselling biotherapeutic proteins on the market, there are still drawbacks such as expensive culture media, long time line, and high drug cost. Recently, researches on a novel Leishmani...

background: erythropoietin (epo) is a glycoprotein hormone function to regulate the production of red blood cells. deficiency of epo is known to cause anemia in chronically infected renal patients and they require regular blood transfusion. availability of recombinant epo has eliminated the need for blood transfusion and now it is extensively used for the treatment of anemia. glycosylation of e...