Large-scale production of recombinant human lactoferrin from high-expression, marker-free transgenic cloned cows.

ABSTRACT: Human lactoferrin (hLF) is a valuable protein for pharmaceutical products and functional foods, and worldwide demand for this protein has steadily increased. However, large-scale recombinant human lactoferrin (rhLF) production using current animal bioreactor techniques is limited by the low expression of foreign proteins, the use of antibiotic resistance genes and the down-regulation of endogenous milk proteins. Here, we generated a herd of marker-free, hLF bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) transgenic cloned cows, as confirmed by Polymerase chain reaction, Southern blot and Western blot analyses. These transgenic cloned cows produced rhLF in milk at concentrations of 4.5-13.6 g/L. Moreover, the total protein content of the milk was increased. Over two hundred transgenic cloned cows wer

SUBMITTER: Wang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5587717 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature