We have reported previously the isolation and characterization of a Chinese hamster ovary cell line, designated CHO-Chl1, which exhibits resistance to bifunctional nitrogen mustards while maintaining sensitivity to a range of other alkylating agents and chemotherapeutic drugs. This enhanced drug resistance is associated with a greater than 40-fold in crease in the level of expression of an alph...

microRNAs with their ability to regulate complex pathways that control cellular behavior and phenotype have been proposed as potential targets for cell engineering in the context of optimization of biopharmaceutical production cell lines, specifically of Chinese Hamster Ovary cells. However, until recently, research was limited by a lack of genomic sequence information on this industrially impo...

Background Seven out of the ten top-selling biopharmaceuticals in 2011 are produced in Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells [1]. This tremendous commercial interest makes the development and application of strategies for cell line optimization, like gene overexpression or knockdown to enhance cell specific productivity and cellular growth, highly interesting. In this work, we investigated the knoc...

CD9, a 24-kDa member of the tetraspanin family, influences cellular growth and development, activation, adhesion, and motility. Our investigation focuses on the hypothesis that the CD9 second extracellular loop (EC2) is important in modulating cell adhesive events. Using a Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell expression system, we previously reported that CD9 expression inhibited cell adhesion to f...

The PTEN tumour suppressor plays critical roles in inhibiting cell proliferation, adhesion and migration through downregulation of the PI3K-AKT pathway. SIPL1 is a novel PTEN‑negative regulator (PTEN-NR) that contributes to PTEN inactivation during tumorigenesis. However, whether SIPL1 plays a role in inhibiting PTEN function in the process of cell adhesion and migration remains unclear. The ai...

facilitates apoptosis by targeting several anti-apoptotic genes. If miR-466h-5p activation is demonstrated to be a universal early response in apoptotic pathways in CHO, 2 Mü ller, D. et al. (2008) MicroRNAs as targets for engineering of CHO cell factories. Trends Biotechnol. 26, 359–365 3 Xu, X. et al. (2011) The genomic sequence of the Chinese hamster ovar (CHO)-K1 cell line. Nat. Biotechnol....

The purpose of this study was to determine whether a cell surface protein that can serve as coreceptor for herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) entry, herpesvirus entry mediator (previously designated HVEM but renamed HveA), also mediates HSV-1-induced cell-cell fusion. We found that transfection of DNA from KOS-804, a previously described HSV-1 syncytial (Syn) strain whose Syn mutation was mapp...

Iron is an essential element for almost all living organisms. The possible role of iron for growth, adherence and cytotoxicity of Entamoeba histolytica was evaluated in this study. The absence of iron from TYI-S-33 medium stopped amebic growth in vitro. However, iron concentrations in the culture media of 21.4-285.6 microM did not affect the growth of the amebae. Although growth was not retarde...

Eukaryotic expression vectors have been used successfully in viral LT-expressing cell lines (ie. COS) to clone cDNAs encoding proteins that can be detected through their bio-activity or reactivity with specific antibodies. Since Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO) have been used extensively for the isolation and characterization of somatic cell mutants, we felt it would be an advantage to develop...