Recombinant protein production by a Kaiko-baculovirus system

Methods Mol Biol. 2009:577:109-20. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60761-232-2_9.

Abstract

Nucleopolyhedrovirus, a baculovirus, generates many intranuclear polyhedra in lepidopterous insects. The replacement of the polyhedra gene with a target gene, under a potent polyhedrin promoter, is widely used to express recombinant proteins. In this chapter, we describe the application of a highly efficient and reproducible baculovirus expression system with high throughput using Kaiko (silkworm).

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bombyx / genetics*
  • High-Throughput Screening Assays / methods
  • Molecular Biology / methods
  • Nucleopolyhedroviruses / genetics*
  • Plasmids / genetics
  • Recombinant Proteins / biosynthesis*
  • Recombinant Proteins / genetics*
  • Recombinant Proteins / isolation & purification
  • Transfection

Substances

  • Recombinant Proteins