Surface display vectors for selective detection and isolation of high level antibody producing cells.

Cell line generation for production of biopharmaceuticals in mammalian cells usually involves intensive screening of clones to identify the rare high producers. In order to facilitate efficient and selective fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) based enrichment and cloning of antibody producing CHO cells, we developed a special vector setup by inserting a leaky translation termination signal between the heavy chain of an IgG antibody and an IgG transmembrane domain. Partial read-through during translation of the antibody heavy chain leads to display of a subset of the produced antibody on the surface of the expressing cell.

Improving expression of recombinant human IGF-1 using IGF-1R knockout CHO cell lines.

Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells are widely used for the large-scale production of recombinant biopharmaceuticals. However, attempts to express IGF-1 (a mutated human Insulin-like growth factor 1 Ea peptide (hIGF-1Ea mut)) in CHO cells resulted in poor cell growth and low productivity (0.1-0.

Deletion of a telomeric region on chromosome 8 correlates with higher productivity and stability of CHO cell lines.

Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells are widely used for large scale production of recombinant biopharmaceuticals. Although these cells have been extensively used, a demand to further increase the performance, for example, to facilitate the process of clone selection to isolate the highest producing cell lines that maintain stability of production over time is still existing. We compared gene expression profiles of high versus low producing CHO clones to identify regulated genes which can be used as biomarkers during clone selection or for cell line engineering.

Combination of the 2A/furin technology with an animal component free cell line development platform process.

The recently described 2A/furin technology combines both chains of the antibody in a single open reading frame. Upon translation and secretion, the peptide is processed by the cell to generate native fully functional IgG antibodies. Here, we describe the results of an evaluation study of this technology for an industrial CHO cell line development process.