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Baculoviruses are currently used as vectors for the transient high-level expression of foreign gene products in insect cells. In this study, we demonstrate that baculoviruses can also be made to continuously express a foreign gene product by using the promoter from IE1, an immediate early viral gene, to produce stably-transformed insect cells. This approach gave levels of foreign gene expression lower than those usually obtained with the lytic baculovirus expression vector system. Expression, however, was continuous and stable, and a complex human glyco-protein (tissue plasminogen activator) was processed more efficiently. We conclude that stable transformation is a feasible approach for baculovirus-mediated foreign gene expression in lepidopteran cells, particularly for products that are relatively poorly-expressed and/or processed in lyrically infected cells.
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Jarvis, D., Fleming, JA., Kovacs, G. et al. Use of Early Baculovirus Promoters for Continuous Expression and Efficient Processing of Foreign Gene Products in Stably Transformed Lepidopteran Cells. Nat Biotechnol 8, 950–955 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1090-950
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