Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Multiplex secretome engineering enhances recombinant protein production and purity

  • Stefan Kol,
  • Daniel Ley,
  • Tune Wulff,
  • Marianne Decker,
  • Johnny Arnsdorf,
  • Sanne Schoffelen,
  • Anders Holmgaard Hansen,
  • Tanja Lyholm Jensen,
  • Jahir M. Gutierrez,
  • Austin W. T. Chiang,
  • Helen O. Masson,
  • Bernhard O. Palsson,
  • Bjørn G. Voldborg,
  • Lasse Ebdrup Pedersen,
  • Helene Faustrup Kildegaard,
  • Gyun Min Lee,
  • Nathan E. Lewis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15866-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Host cell proteins can contaminate biotherapeutics and compromise and degrade their quality. Here the authors use modelling and CRISPR to delete secreted host proteins in CHO cells, leading to improved monoclonal antibody production and purity.