›› 2013, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (9): 101-105.

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Research Progress on Application of Baculovirus Expression System in Veterinary Subunit Vaccine Field

LIU Chun-ju, REN Wei-jie, WANG Zhi-liang   

  1. Research Center for Exotic Animal Diseases, China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center, Qingdao 266032, China
  • Revised:2013-08-05 Online:2013-09-20 Published:2013-09-18

Abstract: Baculovirus expression system, based on baculovirus as the protein expression vector and insect cells or larvas as the host, is an eukaryotic expression system. In comparison with prokaryotic cells, the insect cells permit post-translational modfications of foreign proteins, such as folding, glycosylation, acylation, phosphorylation, disulfide bond formation, proteolytic cleavage and so on. Moreover, the baculoviruses cannot infect livestock. These advantages make baculovirus expression system be a safe and efficient platform for the production of veterinary subunit vaccines. Here, we critically review the baculovirus expression system as a platform to produce veterinary subunit vaccines.

Key words: baculovirus expression system; baculovirus; insect cell; veterinary subunit vaccine; virus-like particle; processing

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