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‡, Johan Blatt Rojek, Karen Julie la Cour Karottki, Jae Seong Lee, Helene Faustrup Kildegaard
Journal
Heterologous Protein Production in CHO Cells. Methods in Molecular Biology
Vol
2853
Page
49-69
Year
2024

Genome editing has become an important aspect of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line engineering for improving the production of recombinant protein therapeutics. Currently, the engineering focus is directed toward expanding product diversity while controlling and improving product quality and yields. In this chapter, we present our protocol for using the genome editing tool Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) to knock out engineering target genes in CHO cells. As an example, we describe how to knock out the glutamine synthetase (GS) gene, which increases the selection efficiency of the GS-mediated gene amplification system.