Mammalian cell expression systems are the dominant tool today for producing complex biotherapeutic proteins. In this chapter, we discuss the basis for this dominance, and further explore why the Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line has become the prevalent choice of hosts to produce most recombinant biologics. Furthermore, we explore some of the innovations that are currently in development to...

The optimization of cell culture conditions for growth and productivity of recombinant Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells is a critical step in biopharmaceutical manufacturing. In the present study, the effects of the timing and amount of peptone feeding of a recombinant CHO cell line grown in a basal medium in serum-free suspension culture were determined for eight peptones of different origin ...

Host factors involved in Chlamydia trachomatis pathogenesis were investigated by random chemical mutagenesis of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO-K1) cells followed by selection for clones resistant to chlamydial infection. A clonal mutant cell line, D4.1-3, refractory to infection by the C. trachomatis L2 serovar was isolated. The D4.1-3 cell line appears to be lacking in a previously undescribed tem...

Single-use technology is now an indispensable part of biopharmaceutical production processes. This not only applies to research and development, but also commercial The manufacturers single-use systems are working on improving them for use in intensified processes as well new developments. One the bottlenecks was availability disk stack separators whose stainless steel variants widely used indu...

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 regulation of the activity of transport System L for neutral amino acids has been investigated in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Incubation of the temperature-sensitive leucyl-tRNA synthetase mutant CHO-tsH1 at marginally permissive temperatures results in leucine-limited growth and increased transport of branched chain and aromatic amino acids. This temperature-dependent transport enhancemen...

expression of receptor tyrosine kinase ror1 in a wide variety of cancers has emerged as a new era focusing on targeting this receptor in cancer therapy. our preliminary re-sults indicate the presence of a truncated transcript of ror1 in tumor cells. the trun-cated ror1 encompasses extracellular and transmembrane domains, lacking catalytic kinase domain (ror1-ecd). as enzyme activity is highly d...

Several antimitotic, tubulin-binding agents, such as colchicine, colcemid, and podophyllotoxin, inhibit the capping of fluorescent-labeled concanavalin A in Chinese hamster ovary cells. By comparing the effects of these agents on parental cell lines on several independently selected colchicine-resistant mutants with decreased drug permeability, we have demonstrated that permeation of these drug...