Plant-Based Expression System
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 4753
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant biotechnology; plant gene expression; plant molecular farming; plant-derived vaccine; virus-like particle; plant cell culture; plant regeneration
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: plant biotechnology; plant transformation; plant genome editing; protoplast culture; virus-like particles; plant molecular farming
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change, which in recent years has come close to catastrophic levels worldwide, is once again reminding us of the importance of plants. Plants are one of the biggest sources for potential biopharmaceuticals due to their ability to synthesize secondary metabolites. Additionally, plants are considered an attractive alternative production host for heterologous nonplant proteins including antibodies, subunit vaccines, and therapeutic enzymes. Cell culture systems are preferred for the production of secondary metabolites, whereas in the case of molecular farming, transient expression systems using Nicotiana benthamiana are most often used. Plant systems allow large-scale production which has low start-up costs, is safe and free of mammalian viral pathogens, and economical compared to other biological systems.
In this Special Issue, we would like to introduce various expression methods and practical examples for the production of biomaterials using these advantages of plants. Possible topics in this issue range from laboratory research to practical cases related to the expression and production of biomaterials. Moreover, this issue will highlight recent advances that have been achieved in plant-based production platforms in terms of plant species, expression strategies, product yields, and downstream processing development.
I would like to thank all authors for their contributions to this Special issue.
Dr. Hyun-Soon Kim
Dr. Ki-Beom Moon
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomaterials
- biopharmaceuticals
- plant cell culture
- stable expression
- transient expression
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