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High-Throughput Screening Identifies Two Novel Small Molecule Enhancers of Recombinant Protein Expression.

Jiasong ChangXiaoxu ChenRuolin WangRun ShiXiaogang WangWei LuSanyuan MaQing-You Xia
Published in: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (2020)
As a primary strategy for production of biological drugs, recombinant proteins produced by transient transfection of mammalian cells are essential for both basic research and industrial production. Here, we established a high-throughput screening platform for improving the expression levels of recombinant proteins. In total, 10,011 small molecule compounds were screened through our platform. After two rounds of screening, we identified two compounds, Apicidin and M-344, that significantly enhanced recombinant protein expression. Both of the selected compounds were histone deacetylase inhibitors, suggesting that the two small molecules increased the expression levels of recombinant proteins by promoting histone acetylation. Moreover, both molecules showed low cytotoxicity. Therefore, our findings suggest that these small molecules may have wide applications in the future.
Keyphrases
  • small molecule
  • histone deacetylase
  • poor prognosis
  • cell free
  • high throughput
  • dna methylation
  • heavy metals
  • gene expression
  • blood brain barrier
  • subarachnoid hemorrhage
  • cerebral ischemia