Abstract
Therapeutic proteins are gaining importance in disease therapy because of their specificity, efficiency, safety, and reduced side effects. With the dawn of recombinant DNA technology, the genes for the therapeutic proteins can be cloned into various expression systems, thus eliminating the earlier practice of obtaining such proteins from animal or human sources. Various expression systems like bacterial, yeast, mammalian, and plant hosts have been successfully used to recombinantly produce therapeutic proteins. Each expression system has its own benefits and limitations, thus making the expression of all proteins in a single system impossible. Prokaryotic systems like E. coli are well established and widely used for production; however, when it comes to glycosylated proteins, the lack of a secretory system in prokaryotes makes them ineffective. For producing such proteins, eukaryotic systems, particularly mammalian expression systems, are better suited. We discuss the methods for recombinant production of major therapeutic proteins using different expression systems.
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Slathia, P.S., Sagrika, Sharma, E., Khan, I.A., Thakur, R.S., Sharma, P. (2023). Recombinant Production of Therapeutic Proteins. In: Singh, D.B., Tripathi, T. (eds) Protein-based Therapeutics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8249-1_4
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