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Commercial Plant-Produced Recombinant Protein Products

Case Studies

  • Presents examples of the production of vaccines and other proteins of commercial interest by molecular farming
  • Written by experts
  • Richly illustrated
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry (AGRICULTURE, volume 68)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction: Plant-Produced Protein Products

    • Elizabeth E. Hood, Paul Christou
    Pages 1-11
  3. Highly Purified Proteins

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Commercial Plant-Produced Recombinant Avidin

      • Elizabeth E. Hood, John A. Howard
      Pages 15-25
    3. Molecular Farming in Plants: The Long Road to the Market

      • Rainer Fischer, Johannes F. Buyel, Stefan Schillberg, Richard M. Twyman
      Pages 27-41
    4. TrypZeanâ„¢: An Animal-Free Alternative to Bovine Trypsin

      • Aparna Krishnan, Susan L. Woodard
      Pages 43-63
    5. Production of Pharmaceutical Grade Recombinant Native Aprotinin and Non-oxidized Aprotinin Variants Under Greenhouse and Field Conditions

      • Gregory P. Pogue, Fakhrieh Vojdani, Kenneth E. Palmer, Earl White, Hugh Haydon, Barry Bratcher
      Pages 65-80
  4. Vaccines

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
    2. Influenza Virus-Like Particles Produced in Nicotiana benthamiana Protect Against a Lethal Viral Challenge in Mice

      • Louis-P. Vézina, Brian J. Ward, Marc-André D’Aoust, Manon Couture, Sonia Trépanier, Andrew Sheldon et al.
      Pages 83-102
    3. Plant-Produced Recombinant Transmission Blocking Vaccine Candidates to Combat Malaria

      • Stephen J. Streatfield, Natasha Kushnir, Vidadi Yusibov
      Pages 103-133
    4. Edible Rabies Vaccines

      • Elizabeth Loza-Rubio, Edith Rojas-Anaya
      Pages 153-177
    5. Newcastle Disease Vaccines

      • Miguel A. Gómez Lim
      Pages 179-195
  5. Industrial Proteins

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
    2. Commercial Plant-Produced Recombinant Cellulases for Biomass Conversion

      • Elizabeth E. Hood, Deborah V. Requesens
      Pages 231-246
    3. Brazzein: A High-Intensity Natural Sweetener

      • Gina Fake, John Howard
      Pages 247-257
  6. Future Directions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259
    2. The Future of Plant-Produced Pharmaceuticals and Industrial Proteins

      • John Howard, Elizabeth E. Hood
      Pages 261-274
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 275-281

About this book

Attention has recently turned to using plants as hosts for the production of commercially important proteins. The twelve case studies in this volume present successful strategies for using plants to produce industrial and pharmaceutical proteins and vaccine antigens. They examine in detail projects that have commercial potential or products that have already been commercialized, illustrating the advantages that plants offer over bacterial, fungal or animal cell-culture hosts. There are many indications that plant protein production marks the beginning of a new paradigm for the commercial production of proteins that, over the next decade, will expand dramatically.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Cal Poly Technology Park, Applied Biotechnology Institute, San Luis Obispo, USA

    John A. Howard

  • Arkansas Biosciences Institute, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, USA

    Elizabeth E. Hood

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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