Abstract
Chinese hamster ovary cells have been widely used to manufacture recombinant proteins for human therapeutic use. A sensitive quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for the detection of residual Chinese hamster ( Cricetulus griseus) DNA is presented in this paper. The assay is reasonably affordable and can be adapted for high-throughput screening using 96-well format. Real-time PCR primers were designed to amplify a 150 bp region of a genomic fragment from hamster DNA. The specificity of the probe was evaluated in real-time PCR reactions using genomic DNA from mouse fibroblast, human kidney and hamster ovary cell lines as template. Sensitivity of real-time PCR was compared on genomic DNA from hamster cell line CHO DG44. These primers can be used in real-time PCR reactions to detect presence of contaminating hamster DNA in purified protein samples down to sensitivity of 300 fg genomic DNA.
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