Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 16, 2026

Efficient Agroinfiltration of Plants for High-level Transient Expression of Recombinant Proteins
Published on: July 23, 2013
Recombinant pharmaceuticals from plants: the plant endomembrane system as bioreactor
Alessandro Vitale1, Emanuela Pedrazzini
1Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, via Bassini 15, 20133 Milan, Italy. vitale@ibba.cnr.it
Abstract:
The production of safe pharmaceuticals at affordable costs is one of the great challenges of our times. Research has proven that transgenic plants can fulfill this need. This review focuses on the peculiar features of plant cells that allow high accumulation of recombinant proteins. The endomembrane system and the secretory pathway of plant cells in themselves offer a fascinating model of protein sorting, and in practical terms, represent the potential for the facile and very low-cost purification of recombinant pharmaceutical proteins.
More Related Videos
Related Concept Videos
Upstream Processing
Production of Pharmaceuticals
Transgenic Plants
The first-ever transgenic plant was a tobacco plant developed in 1983 that showed resistance against the tobacco mosaic virus. Since then, many transgenic plants have been developed and commercialized for improving the agricultural, ornamental, and horticultural value of a crop plant. Transgenic...
Recombinant DNA
Transgenic Organisms
Production of Antibiotics

