High-Level Expression of Enzymes

Enzymes are an important staple in the biopharmaceutical, agricultural and chemical fields. However, expression of these workhorse proteins comes with a number of problems as well. Bacterial hosts can produce large quantities of these proteins, but struggle when tasked with expression of very large proteins or proteins that require post-translational modifications.

Fungal expression systems have the potential to produce toxins during the expression cycle, which can make their product unusable. Both types of hosts must undergo the extreme physiological impacts of high-level expression of the genes needed to create over-production.

This inaugural conference will address the methods and technologies to create high-level expression of enzymes for therapeutics, food sciences and bioenergy in microbes and other host systems.