Week 7: Sources of recombinant proteins (drugs)

Chapter 5: Sources and Upstream processing. Pages: 105 to 118

In this week discussed about 

  • sources of biopharmaceuticals Like bacterial,  plants and animals
  • expression systems for the production of recombinant proteins (Biopharmaceuticals).
    • E.Coli as expression system
    • Chinese Hamster Ovarian cell lines
    • Yeast production system
    • Transgenic animals and plants
    • insect expression systems
  • Advantages and disadvantages of aforementioned expression systems