Plasmids 101: Protein Expression
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...pharmaceuticals, specifically interleukins.
Yeast expression systems
Yeast are a great expression system to generate...proteins under the control of the galactose inducible promoter (GAL). Other commonly used promoters include...These include mammalian, insect, bacterial, plant, yeast and cell free expression systems.
Overall the general...proteins that cannot be produced in E. coli or yeast cells. The only problem with baculovirus systems...recombinant eukaryotic proteins. Although many species of yeast can be used for protein expression, S. cerevisiae...inducible PHO5 and CUP1 promoters respectively. Yeast cells are grown in well-defined media and can be...large-scale, stable production of proteins.
In general yeast expression systems are easier and cheaper to work...