Summary
Recombinant protein production plays a crucial role in the drug discovery process, contributing to several key stages of the pathway. These include exploratory research, target validation, high-throughput screening (HTS), selectivity screens, and structural biology studies. Therefore the quick and rapid production of high-quality recombinant proteins is a critical component of the successful development of therapeutic small molecule inhibitors. This chapter will therefore attempt to provide an overview of some of the current “best-in-class” cloning, expression, and purification strategies currently available that enhance protein production capabilities and enable greater throughput. As such the chapter should also enable a reader with limited understanding of the high-throughput protein production (HTPP) process with the necessary information to set up and equip a laboratory for multiparallel protein production.
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Koehn, J., Hunt, I. (2009). High-Throughput Protein Production (HTPP): A Review of Enabling Technologies to Expedite Protein Production. In: Doyle, S.A. (eds) High Throughput Protein Expression and Purification. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 498. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-196-3_1
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