The Use of Legume Seed for Expression and Storage of High Value Proteins

0434054 - ÚEB 2015 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Moravec, Tomáš - Čeřovská, Noemi
The Use of Legume Seed for Expression and Storage of High Value Proteins.
Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding. Roč. 50, č. 2 (2014), s. 69-76. ISSN 1212-1975. E-ISSN 1805-9325
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GAP501/12/1761
Institutional support: RVO:61389030
Keywords : pea * pharming * protein bodies
Subject RIV: EE - Microbiology, Virology
Impact factor: 0.364, year: 2014
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There is an ever growing need for the use of recombinant proteins both in medicine and industry; however their widespread use is limited by the lack of production capacity. Transgenic plants offer the possibility to produce and deliver recombinant proteins on a large scale with low production costs and with minimal purification or enrichment requirements. Among crop plants, legumes have great potential as a protein production platform because of their naturally high protein content, nutritional value, independence of N-nutrition, pollen containment, available processing technology, storage stability etc. There have been several proof-of-principle attempts to produce large amounts of recombinant protein in seed of both soybean and pea, however, our knowledge of processes regulating the foreign protein production and deposition is still limited.
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