State of the Art of Protein Expression Systems

Dear Colleagues,

One of the big social impacts of biotechnology is the production of recombinant proteins. Recombinant proteins have dramatically changed the art of medical treatments, drug discoveries, vaccine developments, as well as basic biological research studies. However, recombinant protein production is the basic challenge for ongoing medical applications and basic research studies. Thus, the protein expression system, as an interesting and fast-growing research area in biotechnology, might be an attractive tool to solve this challenge.

The Special Issue “State of the Art of Protein Expression System” covers original research papers or reviews on protein expression systems, e.g., Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Lactococcus lactis, yeast, insect cells, mammalian cells, animal, as well as plants.

This Special Issue aims to focus on recent progresses and advances in vectors design, secretion signals, recombinant protein purifications, oligomeric protein expression, virus-like particle production and subunit vaccines production.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• vector designs for protein expression system;
• investigations on signal peptide for recombinant proteins production;
• downstream process of recombinant proteins;
• development of oligomeric recombinant expression vectors;
• virus like particle production and preparations;
• subunit vaccines production and preparations.

Prof. Dr. Tzong-Yuan Wu
Prof. Dr. Monique M. van Oers
Dr. Li-Fen Huang
Guest Editors

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