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  • Title: A novel, high stringency selection system allows screening of few clones for high protein expression.
    Author: van Blokland HJ, Kwaks TH, Sewalt RG, Verhees JA, Klaren VN, Siersma TK, Korse JW, Teunissen NC, Botschuijver S, van Mer C, Man SY, Otte AP.
    Journal: J Biotechnol; 2007 Feb 01; 128(2):237-45. PubMed ID: 17092592.
    Abstract:
    To obtain highly productive mammalian cell lines, often large numbers of clones need to be screened. This is largely due to low selection stringencies, creating many, but low protein producing clones. To remedy this problem, a novel, very stringent selection system was designed, to create few, but high protein producing clones. In essence, a selection marker with a startcodon that confers attenuated translation initiation frequency was placed upstream of the gene of interest with a startcodon that confers optimal translation initiation. From the transcribed bicistronic mRNA, the selection marker is translated at a low frequency, and the protein of interest at a high frequency. This selection system is so stringent that clones form only rarely. However, application of anti-repressor elements, which increase promoter activity, did induce the formation of clones that expressed proteins at high levels. When combined with anti-repressor elements, this novel selection system can be a valuable tool to rapidly create few, but highly productive mammalian cell lines.
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