Do Proteins Hip-Hop?
September 22, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
For many years, researchers have tried to use transgenic plants to produce human protein “farmaceuticals.” If successful, the payoff is enormous—e.g. a pound of IL-2 grown in recombinant tobacco might be worth upwards of $16B. But the problem has been the way a non-human host folds the transgenic protein. This piece suggests the issue may be even more complicated because biological proteins keep changing their shapes, almost as though they’re dancing. MORE
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