Using matrix attachment regions to improve recombinant protein production

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 801, Issue , 2012, Pages 93-110

  Harraghy, Niamh ^a   Buceta, Montserrat ^b   Regamey, Alexandre ^b   Girod, Pierre Alain ^b   Mermod, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Selexis SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antibody; Chinese hamster ovary cells; ELISA; IgG; Matrix attachment region; Recombinant protein production

Indexed keywords

DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHO CELL; CRICETULUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HAMSTER; LIPID METABOLISM; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING;

ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DNA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIPID METABOLISM; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGIONS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

CRICETULUS GRISEUS;

EID: 80555144167     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-352-3_7     Document Type: Article

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