PUBLICATION Mammalian Cell Designers’ Laboratory

MISSION

Our mission is to engineer next-generation mammalian cell factories
for the production of complex biotherapeutics.
By integrating synthetic biology, genome engineering, and autonomous experimentation,
we aim to transform cell line development from empirical optimization into a predictive engineering discipline.

Journal Articles

Application of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing to improve recombinant protein production in CHO cells
Author
Lise Marie Grav*, Karen Julie la Cour Karottki, Jae Seong Lee, Helene Faustrup Kildegaard‡
Journal
Heterologous Protein Production in CHO Cells. Methods in Molecular Biology
Vol
1603
Page
101-118
Year
2017~

Genome editing has become an increasingly important aspect of Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO ) cell line engineering for improving production of recombinant protein therapeutics. Currently, the focus is directed toward expanding the product diversity, controlling and improving product quality and yields. In this chapter, we present our protocol on how to use the genome editing tool Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) to knockout engineering target genes in CHO cells. As an example, we refer to the glutamine synthetase (GS)-encoding gene as the knockout target gene, a knockout that increases the selection efficiency of the GS-mediated gene amplification system.