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Article: Plasmids produce insulin-like growth factor in transgenic rice and tobacco.
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- Obesity & Diabetes Week
- Article date:
- October 4, 2004
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2004 OCT 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Recombinant protein expression plasmids optimized for industrial E. coli fermentation and plant systems produce biologically active human insulin-like growth factor-1 in transgenic rice and tobacco plants.
According to recent research published in the journal Transgenic Research, "Human insulin-like growth factor-1 (hIGF-1) is a growth factor with clinical significance in medicine. The therapeutic potential of recombinant hIGF-1 (rthIGF-1) stems from the fact that hIGF-1 resembles insulin in many aspects of physiology. The expression of hIGF-1 in transgenic tobacco and rice plants using different expression cassettes is ...