Establishment of a tobacco BY2 cell line devoid of plant-specific xylose and fucose as a platform for the production of biotherapeutic proteins

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1120-1129

  Hanania, Uri ^a   Ariel, Tami ^a   Tekoah, Yoram ^a   Fux, Liat ^a   Sheva, Maor ^a   Gubbay, Yehuda ^a   Weiss, Mara ^a   Oz, Dina ^a   Azulay, Yaniv ^a   Turbovski, Albina ^a   Forster, Yehava ^a   Shaaltiel, Yoseph ^a  

^a Protalix Biotherapeutics   (Israel)

Author keywords

bio pharming; CRISPR Cas9; DNaseI; gene editing; glyco engineering; plant glycans

Indexed keywords

FUCOSE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UDP XYLOSE-PROTEIN XYLOSYLTRANSFERASE; XYLOSE;

BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; CELL LINE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; GENE EDITING; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TOBACCO;

BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; CELL LINE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; FUCOSE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENE EDITING; GENETIC VECTORS; GLYCOPROTEINS; PENTOSYLTRANSFERASES; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYSACCHARIDES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TOBACCO; XYLOSE;

EID: 85014284498     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12702     Document Type: Article

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