PMID- 26523469 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20161213 LR - 20161230 IS - 1097-0290 (Electronic) IS - 0006-3592 (Linking) VI - 113 IP - 5 DP - 2016 May TI - Improving expression of recombinant human IGF-1 using IGF-1R knockout CHO cell lines. PG - 1094-101 LID - 10.1002/bit.25877 [doi] AB - 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 (0.1-0.2 g/L). Human IGF-1 variants negatively impacted CHO cell growth via the IGF-1 receptor (IGF-1R). Therefore knockout (KO) of the IGF-1R gene in two different CHO cell lines as well as knockdown (KD) of IGF-1R in one CHO cell line were performed. These cell line engineering approaches decreased significantly the hIGF-1 mediated cell growth inhibition and increased productivity of both KO CHO cell lines as well as of the KD CHO cell line. A productivity increase of 10-fold at pool level and sevenfold at clone level was achieved, resulting in a titer of 1.3 g/L. This data illustrate that cell line engineering approaches are powerful tools to improve the yields of recombinant proteins which are difficult to produce in CHO cells. CI - (c) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. FAU - Romand, Sandrine AU - Romand S AD - Integrated Biologics Profiling, Novartis Pharma, Klybeckstrasse 141, Basel, 4057, Switzerland. FAU - Jostock, Thomas AU - Jostock T AD - Integrated Biologics Profiling, Novartis Pharma, Klybeckstrasse 141, Basel, 4057, Switzerland. FAU - Fornaro, Mara AU - Fornaro M AD - Musculoskeletal Diseases, Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland. FAU - Schmidt, Joerg AU - Schmidt J AD - Cell and Gene Therapies, Novartis Pharma, Basel, Switzerland. FAU - Ritter, Anett AU - Ritter A AD - Integrated Biologics Profiling, Novartis Pharma, Klybeckstrasse 141, Basel, 4057, Switzerland. FAU - Wilms, Burkhard AU - Wilms B AD - Integrated Biologics Profiling, Novartis Pharma, Klybeckstrasse 141, Basel, 4057, Switzerland. FAU - Laux, Holger AU - Laux H AD - Integrated Biologics Profiling, Novartis Pharma, Klybeckstrasse 141, Basel, 4057, Switzerland. holger.laux@novartis.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20160118 PL - United States TA - Biotechnol Bioeng JT - Biotechnology and bioengineering JID - 7502021 RN - 0 (Recombinant Proteins) RN - 67763-96-6 (Insulin-Like Growth Factor I) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Receptor, IGF Type 1) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - CHO Cells/cytology/*metabolism MH - Cell Proliferation MH - Cricetinae MH - Cricetulus MH - Gene Expression MH - Gene Knockdown Techniques/methods MH - *Gene Knockout Techniques MH - Genetic Engineering/*methods MH - Humans MH - Insulin-Like Growth Factor I/*genetics MH - Receptor, IGF Type 1/*genetics MH - Recombinant Proteins/genetics OTO - NOTNLM OT - CHO OT - Chinese hamster ovary OT - IGF-1 OT - IGF-1R OT - ZFN OT - cell line engineering EDAT- 2015/11/03 06:00 MHDA- 2016/12/15 06:00 CRDT- 2015/11/03 06:00 PHST- 2015/05/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/10/11 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2015/10/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/11/03 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/11/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/12/15 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/bit.25877 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biotechnol Bioeng. 2016 May;113(5):1094-101. doi: 10.1002/bit.25877. Epub 2016 Jan 18.