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The authors established apoptosis resistant COS–1, myeloma, hybridoma, and Friend leukemia cell lines by genetically engineering cells, aiming at more efficient protein production by cell culture. COS–1 cells, which are most widely used for eukariotic gene expression, were transfected with human bcl–2 gene. Both bcl–2 and mock transfected COS–1 cells were cultured at low (0.2%) serum concentration for 9 days. The final viable cell number of the bcl–2 transfected cells was ninefold of that of the mock transfectants. Both bcl–2 and mock transfectants were further transfected with the vector pcDNA-λ containing SV40 ori and immunoglobulin λ gene for transiently expressing λ protein. The bcl–2 expressing COS–1 cells produced more λ protein than the mock transfected COS–1 cells after 4 days posttransfection.
Mouse myeloma p3-X63-Ag.8.653 cells, which are widely used as the partner for preparing hybridoma, and hybridoma 2E3 cells were transfected with human bcl–2 gene. Both bcl–2 transfected myeloma and hybridoma survived longer than the corresponding original cells in batch culture. The bcl–2 transfected 2E3 cells survived 2 to 4 four days longer in culture, producing 1.5- to 4-fold amount of antibody in comparison with the mock transfectants.
Coexpression of bag–1 with bcl–2 improved survival of hybridoma 2E3 cells more than bcl–2 expression alone. The bag–1 and bcl–2 coexpressing cells produced more IgG than the the cells expressing bcl–2 alone.
Apoptosis of Friend murine erythroleukemia(F-MEL) cells was suppressed with antisense c-jun expression. The antisense c-jun expressing cells survived 16 days at non-growth state.
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Suzuki, E., Terada, S., Ueda, H. et al. Establishing apoptosis resistant cell lines for improving protein productivity of cell culture. Cytotechnology 23, 55–59 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007942929800
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