Engineering considerations to produce bioactive compounds from plant cell suspension culture in bioreactors

EA Motolinía-Alcántara, CO Castillo-Araiza… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
The large-scale production of plant-derived secondary metabolites (PDSM) in bioreactors to
meet the increasing demand for bioactive compounds for the treatment and prevention of …

Strategies for glycoengineering therapeutic proteins

K Dammen-Brower, P Epler, S Zhu, ZJ Bernstein… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Almost all therapeutic proteins are glycosylated, with the carbohydrate component playing a
long-established, substantial role in the safety and pharmacokinetic properties of this …

Improving protein quantity and quality—The next level of plant molecular farming

H Liu, MP Timko - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plants offer several unique advantages in the production of recombinant pharmaceuticals for
humans and animals. Although numerous recombinant proteins have been expressed in …

Optimizing pharmacological and immunological properties of therapeutic proteins through PEGylation: investigating key parameters and their impact

J Gonçalves, P Caliceti - Drug Design, Development and Therapy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Protein PEGylation represents a significant technological advancement in the development
of protein-based therapeutics and is widely used to reduce immunogenicity, enhance …

Optimising expression and extraction of recombinant proteins in plants

RJ Coates, MT Young, S Scofield - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recombinant proteins are of paramount importance for research, industrial and medical use.
Numerous expression chassis are available for recombinant protein production, and while …

Recent advances in paclitaxel biosynthesis and regulation

T Coombe-Tennant, X Zhu, S Wu… - Journal of Experimental …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Paclitaxel (PTX) is a high value plant natural product derived from Taxus (yew) species. This
plant specialized metabolite (PSM) and its derivatives constitute a cornerstone for the …

Plants as biofactories for therapeutic proteins and antiviral compounds to combat COVID-19

C England, J TrejoMartinez, P PerezSanchez, U Karki… - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) had a profound impact on the world's health and …

Molecular farming of pembrolizumab and nivolumab

MC Stark, AM Joubert, MH Visagie - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are a class of immunotherapy agents capable of
alleviating the immunosuppressive effects exerted by tumorigenic cells. The programmed …

Current advances of plant-based vaccines for neurodegenerative diseases

LA Bravo-Vázquez, EO Mora-Hernández… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) are characterized by the progressive degeneration
and/or loss of neurons belonging to the central nervous system, and represent one of the …

High yield secretion of human erythropoietin from tobacco cells for ex vivo differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells towards red blood cells

U Karki, T Wright, J Xu - Journal of biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Human erythropoietin (EPO) is a key cytokine in erythropoiesis by regulating differentiation
of erythroid progenitor cells into red blood cells (RBCs). Plant cell cultures are considered as …