Abstract
Transient expression of recombinant proteins in plants is being used as a platform for production of therapeutic proteins. Benefits of this system include a reduced cost of drug development, rapid delivery of new products to the market, and an ability to provide safe and efficacious medicines for diseases. Although plant-based production systems offer excellent potential for therapeutic protein production, barriers, such as plant host defense response, exist which negatively impact the yield of product. Here we provide a protocol using tandem mass tags and mass spectrometry-based proteomics to quickly and robustly quantify the change in abundance of host defense proteins produced during the production process. These proteins can then become candidates for genetic manipulation to create host plants with reduced plant defenses capable of producing higher therapeutic protein yields.
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Prudhomme, N., Krieger, J.R., McLean, M.D., Cossar, D., Geddes-McAlister, J. (2022). Proteomic Profiling of Interplay Between Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Nicotiana benthamiana for Improved Molecular Pharming Outcomes. In: Geddes-McAlister, J. (eds) Proteomics in Systems Biology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2456. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2124-0_19
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