Journal
APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 175, Issue 2, Pages 841-854Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12010-014-1320-5
Keywords
Techno-economic analysis; Horseradish peroxidase; Transient expression; Agroinfiltration; Commercial production; Nicotiana benthamiana
Funding
- National Intellectual Property Management Organisation
- Research Contracts and Intellectual Property Services of the University of Cape Town
- Technology Innovation Agency
- Department of Science and Technology
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Despite the advantages of plant-based transient expression systems relative to microbial or mammalian cell systems, the commercial production of recombinant proteins using plants has not yet been achieved to any significant extent. One of the challenges has been the lack of published data on the costs of manufacture for products other than biopharmaceuticals. In this study, we report on the techno-economic analysis of the production of a standard commercial enzyme, namely, horseradish peroxidase (HRP), using a transient expression system in Nicotiana benthamiana. Based on the proven plant yield of 240 mg HRP/kg biomass, a biomass productivity of 15-kg biomass/m(2)/year and a process yield of 54 % (mg HRP product/mg HRP in biomass), it is apparent that HRP can be manufactured economically via transient expression in plants in a large-scale facility (> 5 kg HRP/year). At this level, the process is competitive versus the existing technology (extraction of the enzyme from horseradish), and the product is of comparable or improved activity, containing only the preferred isoenzyme C. Production scale, protein yield and biomass productivity are found to be the most important determinants of overall viability.
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