A few weeks ago, we wrote about an interview with Dr. Niall
Barron, who’ll be speaking at this year’s Cell Line Development & Engineering
conference, in which he explained why researchers should be paying attention to
MicroRNAs. Given that an estimated 50%
to 70% of all protein encoding genes are under the control of MircoRNAs themselves,
it’s clear that these molecules should be peaking the interest of researchers. But how can they be leveraged in the commercial
sense? We go back to Dr. Barron for the
answer.
How might they be
implemented by industry in a commercial process?
Dr. Barron: So, as I mentioned previously, there
are two main approaches. Ideally, an industry would use this technology before
going through regulatory submission. So, with a new cell line making a
particular product of interest, a cell line would be manipulated stably by
using something like the technology I just described. For instance, over
expression sponge that would target the microRNA of interest, or indeed, over
expressing a short hairpin that will mimic the microRNA of interest if over
expression is desired. So, that forms a stable cell line that can act as the
parent, into which the product gene or the transgene is placed and that would
go through the normal regulatory process.
The alternative in existing process where full regulatory
submission is not desirable would be to add either mimics or inhibitors, which
are short molecules that are typically complexed with some kind of transfection
reagent and that can be fed directly into the culture medium where it is transported
across the outer cell membrane to mediate its effect directly in the process.
You can hear the complete interview with Dr. Barron here,
or you can download the transcript included in our brochure here.
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