A physiological product-release model for baculovirus infected insect cells
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Modifying Baculovirus Expression Vectors to Produce Secreted Plant Proteins in Insect Cells
Published on: August 20, 2018
1Laboratory for Biological Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, the University of Queensland, 4072 Brisbane, Australia.
Abstract:
Existing models describe the product release from baculovirus infected insect cells as an unspecific protein leakage occurring in parallel with protein production. The model presented here shows that the observed product release of normally non-secreted proteins can be described through cell death alone. This model avoids the implicit non-physiological assumption of previous models that cells permeable to recombinant protein as well as trypan blue continue to produce protein.
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