Baculovirus as a gene delivery vector: recent understandings of molecular alterations in transduced cells and latest applications

CY Chen, CY Lin, GY Chen, YC Hu - Biotechnology advances, 2011 - Elsevier
Baculovirus infects insects in nature and is non-pathogenic to humans, but can transduce a
broad range of mammalian and avian cells. Thanks to the biosafety, large cloning capacity …

Quality control and analytical methods for baculovirus-based products

A Roldão, T Vicente, C Peixoto, MJT Carrondo… - Journal of invertebrate …, 2011 - Elsevier
Recombinant baculoviruses (rBac) are used for many different applications, ranging from bio-
insecticides to the production of heterologous proteins, high-throughput screening of gene …

Hybrid metabolic flux analysis: combining stoichiometric and statistical constraints to model the formation of complex recombinant products

N Carinhas, V Bernal, AP Teixeira, MJT Carrondo… - BMC systems …, 2011 - Springer
Background Stoichiometric models constitute the basic framework for fluxome quantification
in the realm of metabolic engineering. A recurrent bottleneck, however, is the establishment …

[HTML][HTML] Viruses and virus-like particles in biotechnology: fundamentals and applications

A Roldão, AC Silva, MCM Mellado… - Comprehensive …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Although viruses are simple biological systems, they are capable of evolving highly efficient
techniques for infecting cells, expressing their genomes, and generating new copies of …

Estimation of intracellular fluxes in cerebellar neurons after hypoglycemia: importance of the pyruvate recycling pathway and glutamine oxidation

AI Amaral, AP Teixeira, U Sonnewald… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Although glucose is the primary cerebral fuel, the brain is able to metabolize other
substrates in hypoglycemia. Nevertheless, the metabolic consequences of this pathology at …

Quantitative Proteomics of Spodoptera frugiperda Cells during Growth and Baculovirus Infection

N Carinhas, AM Robitaille, S Moes, MJT Carrondo… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Baculovirus infection of Spodoptera frugiperda cells is a system of choice to produce a
range of recombinant proteins, vaccines and, potentially, gene therapy vectors. While …

Cell functional enviromics: unravelling the function of environmental factors

AP Teixeira, JML Dias, N Carinhas, M Sousa… - BMC systems …, 2011 - Springer
Background While functional genomics, focused on gene functions and gene-gene
interactions, has become a very active field of research in molecular biology, equivalent …

Metabolic adaptation of MDCK cells to different growth conditions: effects on catalytic activities of central metabolic enzymes

R Janke, Y Genzel, N Händel, A Wahl… - Biotechnology and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Lactate and ammonia are the most important waste products of central carbon metabolism in
mammalian cell cultures. In particular during batch and fed‐batch cultivations these toxic by …

Requirements for baculoviruses for clinical gene therapy applications

HP Lesch, KE Makkonen, A Laitinen, AM Määttä… - Journal of invertebrate …, 2011 - Elsevier
Baculoviruses have proven capacity for the production of recombinant proteins including
virus-like particles and as viral vectors. Recent progress in preclinical studies suggest that …