Genetic engineering of host organisms for pharmaceutical synthesis

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 53, Issue , 2018, Pages 191-200

  Collins, Joseph H ^a   Young, Eric M ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL CULTURE; DNA SEQUENCES; GENE ENCODING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; CHINESE HAMSTER OVARY CELLS; ECONOMICAL PRODUCTION; MODEL ORGANISMS; PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTION; PHARMACEUTICAL SYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN PRODUCTIONS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ENDONUCLEASE; NATURAL PRODUCT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; DRUG;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHL CELL LINE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CRISPR-CAS9 SYSTEM; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; DRUG SYNTHESIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HOST SELECTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHO CELL LINE; CRICETULUS; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENETICS; HAMSTER; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 85042184957     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2018.02.001     Document Type: Review

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