Current balancing act
A consistent and uniformly glycosylated protein is a key criterion in biotherapeutics manufacturing. It would be nice if you also produced your glycosylated protein at high levels. Traditionally, glycosylation is achieved by optimizing a cell line as well as varying culture conditions. In doing so, you may give up protein yield in order to produce the desired glycopattern.
In vitro glycoengineering (IVGE)
In vitro glycoengineering allows you to uncouple the need to balance between yield and glycosylation. First you selecting clones that give maximum yield then after producing your protein you can selectively glycosylate it by in vitro glycoengineering (IVGE) resulting in a complete and consistent end product.
Roche CustomBiotech has developed enzymes for galactosylation and sialylation along with their substrates. Using these enzymes you can simply galactosylate your protein or generate fully sialylated proteins, depending on your therapeutic need. |