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Proteases of Nicotiana benthamiana: an emerging battle for molecular farming.

Abstract:
Molecular farming increasingly uses the tobacco relative Nicotiana benthamiana for production of recombinant proteins through transient expression. Several proteins are produced efficiently with this expression platform, but yields for other proteins are often very low. These low yields are frequently due to endogenous proteases. The latest genome annotations indicate that N. benthamiana encodes for at least 1243 putative proteases that probably act redundantly and consecutively on substrates in different subcellular compartments. Here, we discuss the N. benthamiana protease repertoire that may affect recombinant protein production and recent advances in protease depletion strategies to increase recombinant protein production in N. benthamiana.
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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1016/j.copbio.2019.10.006

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Plant Sciences
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-3692-7487


Publisher:
Elsevier
Journal:
Current Opinion in Biotechnology More from this journal
Volume:
61
Pages:
60-65
Publication date:
2019-11-22
Acceptance date:
2019-10-17
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EISSN:
1879-0429
ISSN:
0958-1669
Pmid:
31765962


Language:
English
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Subtype:
Review
Pubs id:
1076299
Local pid:
pubs:1076299
Deposit date:
2020-03-30

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