Plants are the most efficient protein producers on the planet and can do so without propagation of human pathogens or other mamalian contaminants. Compared with existing production methods, plants have a superior ability to assimilate genetic information and produce complex proteins that can be used to make plants with more effective therapeutics, antibodies and enzymes.
Plastid AS has a patented method of selection and regeneration which allows production of high value recombinant proteins from genetically engineered plants:
1 cell = 50-10,000 plastids
1 plastid = ~100 genomes
1 cell = ~5,000 to 10,000 genes
producing proteins
1 plant can produce > 250mg protein
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Advantages and Potential of Plastid Transformation:
- Cost effective Source for growth is sunlight and water
- Robust and reliable High level of production (average between
10-20% of total protein content)
High protein stability, no degradation with volume
No gene silencing
- Scalable Inexpensive scaling-up to meet market demands
- more plants, more protein
- Versatile Production of difficult/toxic proteins
- Secure No transgene spread by pollen
- Market demand Future protein requirements require new
technologies
Multiple customer targets: pharma, agri/aqua culture
- Market potential Niche markets exist for new proteins that
overcome existing problems within billion dollar industries |
