The fickle CHO: a review of the causes, implications, and potential alleviation of the CHO cell line instability problem

Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell-based bioproduction of recombinant proteins can now routinely achieve >5 g/L titers in fed-batches. This progress is partly due to the rapid adaptability of CHO cells to various genetic manipulations and changing process conditions. An inherently plastic genome allows for this adaptability; however, it also gives CHO cells the propensity for genomic rearrangements. In combination with the genomic and metabolic...