Publications de Yashas Rajendra

Comparison of Three Transposons for the Generation of Highly Productive Recombinant CHO Cell Pools and Cell Lines

Florian Maria Wurm, David Hacker, Lucia Baldi Unser, Yashas Rajendra, Sowmya Balasubramanian

Several naturally occurring vertebrate transposable elements have been genetically modified to enable the transposition of recombinant genes in mammalian cells. We compared three transposonspiggyBac, Tol2, and Sleeping Beautyfor their ability to generate c ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Transcriptional and post-transcriptional limitations of high-yielding, PEI-mediated transient transfection with CHO and HEK-293E cells

Florian Maria Wurm, David Hacker, Lucia Baldi Unser, Yashas Rajendra, Divor Kiseljak

Transient gene expression (TGE) in human embryonic kidney (HEK-293) and Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells is a well-established technology for the rapid generation of recombinant proteins. Although the maximum TGE yields have reached 1 g/L or more, the amo ...

American Chemical Society2015

Enhanced Plasmid DNA Utilization in Transiently Transfected CHO-DG44 Cells in the Presence of Polar Solvents

Florian Maria Wurm, David Hacker, Lucia Baldi Unser, Yashas Rajendra, Divor Kiseljak, Sowmya Balasubramanian

Although the protein yields from transient gene expression (TGE) with Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells have recently improved, the amount of plasmid DNA (pDNA) needed for transfection remains relatively high. We describe a strategy to reduce the pDNA amou ...

American Chemical Society2015

Peptone Supplementation of Culture Medium Has Variable Effects on the Productivity of CHO Cells

Florian Maria Wurm, Lucia Baldi Unser, Yashas Rajendra, Fatemeh Davami

The optimization of cell culture conditions for growth and productivity of recombinant Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells is a critical step in biopharmaceutical manufacturing. In the present study, the effects of the timing and amount of peptone feeding of ...

2014

DNA delivery with hyperbranched polylysine: A comparative study with linear and dendritic polylysine

Florian Maria Wurm, Harm-Anton Klok, David Hacker, Lucia Baldi Unser, Yashas Rajendra, Zuzana Kadlecova

PEI and polylysine are among the most investigated synthetic polymeric carriers for DNA delivery. Apart from their practical use, these 2 classes of polymers are also of interest from a fundamental point of view as they both can be prepared in different ar ...

Elsevier2013

Polyethyleneimine-based transient gene expression processes for suspension-adapted HEK-293E and CHO-DG44 cells

Florian Maria Wurm, David Hacker, Lucia Baldi Unser, Yashas Rajendra, Divor Kiseljak, Sarah Thurnheer

Transient gene expression (TGE) from mammalian cells is an increasingly important tool for the rapid production of recombinant proteins for research applications in biochemistry, structural biology, and biomedicine. Here we review methods for the transfect ...

Elsevier2013

A Simple High Yielding Transient Gene Expression System for CHO Cells

Yashas Rajendra

EPFL2013

Role of non-specific DNA in reducing coding DNA requirement for transient gene expression with CHO and HEK-293E cells

Florian Maria Wurm, David Hacker, Lucia Baldi Unser, Yashas Rajendra, Divor Kiseljak, Sagar Shashidhar Manoli

Transient gene expression (TGE) is a rapid method for the production of recombinant proteins in mammalian cells. While the TGE volumetric productivity has improved significantly over the past decade, the amount of plasmid DNA (pDNA) needed for transfection ...

2012

Reduced glutamine concentration improves protein production in growth-arrested CHO-DG44 and HEK-293E cells

Florian Maria Wurm, David Hacker, Lucia Baldi Unser, Yashas Rajendra, Divor Kiseljak

For most cultivated mammalian cells, glutamine is an essential medium component. However, glutamine consumption results in the production of ammonia, a cytotoxic byproduct. Here we investigated the effect of glutamine reduction on recombinant protein produ ...

Springer Netherlands2011

Hyperbranched Polylysine: A Versatile, Biodegradable Transfection Agent for the Production of Recombinant Proteins by Transient Gene Expression and the Transfection of Primary Cells

Harm-Anton Klok, Florian Maria Wurm, Lucia Baldi Unser, David Hacker, Zuzana Kadlecova, Yashas Rajendra

The feasibility of a new transfection agent, HBPL, for the production of recombinant IgG antibody via TGE as well as for the transfection of primary cells is studied. Under the conditions investigated, transfection of CHO-DG44 cells using HBPL results in I ...

2012