| | Contents | |
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| | Volume 1 | |
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| | Prologue | XXV |
| | Dedication | XXIX |
| | Foreword | XXXI |
| | Foreword | XXXV |
| | Quotes | XXXVII |
| | Executive Summary | XLI |
| | List of Contributors | CXXIII |
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| | Introduction Current Status of Biopharmaceuticals: Approved Products and Trends in Approvals Gary Walsh | 1 |
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| 1 | What are Biopharmaceuticals? | 2 |
| 2 | A Global Snapshot | 2 |
| 3 | Upstream and Downstream Processing | 3 |
| 4 | Trends in Approvals | 6 |
| 5 | Declining Number of Approvals | 8 |
| 6 | Products Approved for Human Use | 9 |
| 7 | Products Approved for Veterinary Use | 25 |
| 8 | Likely Future Directions | 27 |
| 9 | Concluding Remarks | 33 |
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| Part I | Biopharmaceuticals Used in Molecular Medicine | |
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| | From Genome to Clinic -- Correlation Between Genes, Diseases and Biopharmaceuticals | 37 |
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| 1 | Beginning to Understand the End of the Chromosome Thomas R.Cech | 37 |
| 1.1 | Introduction | 37 |
| 1.2 | Telomere Terminal Transferase | 38 |
| 1.3 | Telomerase Contains an Essential RNA | 38 |
| 1.4 | Finally, the Protein: Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase | 39 |
| 1.5 | Current Picture of Telomerase | 40 |
| 1.6 | Regulation of Telomerase | 42 |
| 1.7 | Cellular Immortality | 44 |
| 1.8 | Cancer | 44 |
| 2 | The Role of Pharmacogenetics/Pharmacogenomics in Drug Development and Regulatory Review: Current Status Shiew-Mei Huang and Lawrence J. Lesko | 49 |
| 2.1 | Introduction | 50 |
| 2.2 | Variability in Drug Response | 50 |
| 2.3 | Drug-metabolizing Enzymes and Transporters | 52 |
| 2.4 | Applications of Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics in Drug Development and Regulatory Review | 54 |
| 2.5 | Determination of Different Genotype Groups based on Known Valid and Probable Valid Biomarkers | 56 |
| 2.6 | Drug Interactions | 60 |
| 2.7 | Voluntary versus Required Submissions | 60 |
| 2.8 | Labeling Implications | 63 |
| 2.9 | Conclusion | 64 |
| 3 | Large-scale Detection of Genetic Variation: The Key to Personalized Medicine Joerg Geistlinger and Peter Ahnert | 71 |
| 3.1 | Genetic Variation, Disease Susceptibility and Drug Response | 73 |
| 3.2 | Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics | 74 |
| 3.3 | Personalized Medicine | 76 |
| 3.4 | SNPs in Clinical Applications | 78 |
| 3.5 | Strategies in SNP Discovery | 80 |
| 3.6 | SNP Technologies | 83 |
| 3.7 | Polydimensional SNP-Chips: The Array-On Technology | 88 |
| 3.8 | Outlook | 93 |
| 4 | A Systems Biology Approach to Target Identification and Validation for Human Chronic Disease Drug Discovery Bonnie E. Gould Rothberg, Carol E.A. Pen a, and Jonathan M. Rothberg | 99 |
| 4.1 | Limitations in the Chronic Disease Drug Discovery Process | 100 |
| 4.2 | Creating the Pharmaceutically Tractable Genome | 104 |
| 4.3 | Integrated Systems Biology Approaches to Drug Target Validation for Specific Clinical Indications | 110 |
| 4.4 | Conclusion | 123 |
| 5 | The Development of Herceptin(R): Paving the Way for Individualized Cancer Therapy Thorsten S. Gutjahr and Carsten Reinhardt | 127 |
| 5.1 | Introduction | 128 |
| 5.2 | HER2 | 129 |
| 5.3 | Herceptin Mechanism of Action and Effects on Cellular Processes | 130 |
| 5.4 | Preclinical Evidence | 131 |
| 5.5 | HER2 Testing as a Prerequisite for Herceptin Therapy: Development of Commercially Available and Validated Testing Methodologies | 133 |
| 5.6 | HER2 Testing Algorithm | 135 |
| 5.7 | Herceptin in Clinical Use | 136 |
| 5.8 | Future Prospects for Herceptin and other Targeted Therapies | 143 |
| 5.9 | Herceptin in Early Breast Cancer | 143 |
| 5.10 | Herceptin Adjuvant Trials | 143 |
| 5.11 | Conclusion | 145 |
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| | siRNA -- the Magic Bullet and Other Gene Therapeutical Approaches | 151 |
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| 6 | Adenovirus-based Gene Therapy: Therapeutic Angiogenesis with Adenovirus 5 Fibroblast Growth Factor-4 (Ad5FGF-4) in Patients with Chronic Myocardial Ischemia Michael McCaman, Francisco J. Castillo, Farah Fawaz, Yasushi Ogawa, Erik Whiteley, Elisabeth Lehmberg, Mei Tan, Jacob Kung, Bruce Mann, Erno Pungor Jr., and Gabor M. Rubanyi | 151 |
| 6.1 | Introduction | 152 |
| 6.2 | Therapeutic Angiogenesis and the Importance of Collateral Vessels | 153 |
| 6.3 | Designing an Intervention Suitable for Therapeutic Angiogenesis | 153 |
| 6.4 | Production and Characterization of the Ad5FGF-4 Vector | 156 |
| 6.5 | Pre-clinical Efficacy and Safety of Ad5FGF-4 in Pigs | 172 |
| 6.6 | Clinical Studies | 175 |
| 6.7 | Summary and Conclusions | 178 |
| 7 | MIDGE Vectors and dSLIM Immunomodulators: DNA-based Molecules for Gene Therapeutic Strategies Manuel Schmidt, Barbara Volz, and Burghardt Wittig | 183 |
| 7.1 | Vectors for Gene Therapy | 184 |
| 7.2 | Immunomodulatory Molecules | 193 |
| 7.3 | Application of MIDGE Vectors and dSLIM Immunomodulators | 198 |
| 8 | Nonprotein-coding RNAs and their Potential as Biopharmaceuticals Maciej Szymanski, Jan Barciszewski and Volker A. Erdmann | 213 |
| 8.1 | Introduction | 213 |
| 8.2 | The Contents of the Genomes | 214 |
| 8.3 | npcRNAs | 215 |
| 8.4 | Functions of npcRNAs | 217 |
| 8.5 | npcRNAs and Human Diseases | 219 |
| 8.6 | miRNAs | 222 |
| 8.7 | Future Prospects | 223 |
| 9 | Double-stranded Decoy Oligonucleotides as new Biopharmaceuticals Andreas H. Wagner and Heiko E. von der Leyen | 229 |
| 9.1 | Introduction | 230 |
| 9.2 | Therapeutic Decoy ODN Application | 232 |
| 10 | Rational siRNA Design for RNA Interference: Optimizations for Therapeutic Use and Current Applications Anastasia Khvorova, Queta Boese, and William S. Marshall | 243 |
| 10.1 | RNAi: History and Mechanism | 244 |
| 10.2 | Early siRNA Design Parameters | 248 |
| 10.3 | Current siRNA Design Considerations | 251 |
| 10.4 | Therapeutic Applications of RNAi | 259 |
| 10.5 | Summary: The Future of RNAi in Biopharmaceutical Development | 264 |
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| | Mobilis in Mobile -- Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Other Sources for Cell Therapy | 269 |
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| 11 | The First Cloned Human Embryo: An Unlimited Source of Stem Cells for Therapeutic Cloning Woo Suk Hwang, Byeong Chun Lee, Sung Keun Kang, and Shin Yong Moon | 269 |
| 11.1 | Introduction | 270 |
| 11.2 | Human Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) | 270 |
| 11.3 | Establishment and Characterization of Human SCNT ES Cells | 276 |
| 11.4 | Reprogramming Adult Cells into an Embryonic State | 277 |
| 11.5 | Discussion and Conclusion | 279 |
| 12 | Myocardial Regeneration Strategies using Human Embryonic Stem Cells Izhak Kehat, Oren Caspi, and Lior Gepstein | 283 |
| 12.1 | Introduction | 284 |
| 12.2 | Derivation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells | 286 |
| 12.3 | Cardiomyocyte Differentiation of ES Cells | 289 |
| 12.4 | Possible Research and Clinical Applications of the hES-derived Cardiomyocytes | 293 |
| 12.5 | Early Cardiac Lineage Differentiation | 293 |
| 12.6 | Myocardial Regeneration Strategies using hES-derived Cardiomyocytes | 295 |
| 12.7 | Functional Integration of the Cell Grafts | 296 |
| 12.8 | Cardiomyocyte Enrichment, Purification, and Up-scaling Strategies | 298 |
| 12.9 | Prevention of Immunological Rejection | 299 |
| 12.10 | Conclusions | 300 |
| 13 | Gene and Cell-based Therapies for Cardiovascular Disease Abeel A. Mangi | 305 |
| 13.1 | Introduction | 306 |
| 13.2 | Gene Therapy as Novel Drug Delivery | 306 |
| 13.3 | Cell-based Gene Therapy and Regenerative Cardiovascular Medicine | 319 |
| 13.4 | Future Directions and Challenges | 321 |
| 14 | Spheramine(R): A Cell Therapeutic Approach to Parkinsons Disease Elke Reissig, Hermann Graf, and Friedrich-Joachim Kapp | 325 |
| 14.1 | Introduction | 326 |
| 14.2 | PD | 326 |
| 14.3 | Spheramine | 334 |
| 14.4 | Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Multicenter Study of the Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of Spheramine Implanted Bilaterally into the Postcommissural Putamen of Patients with Advanced PD | 343 |
| 14.5 | Summary and Outlook | 348 |
| 15 | Applying Human Cells to Organogenesis and Transplantation Benjamin Dekel and Yair Reisner | 353 |
| 15.1 | Growing Demands for Kidney Allograft Transplantation | 354 |
| 15.2 | Alternative Sources for Human Renal Allografts | 354 |
| 15.3 | Conclusions | 367 |
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| | Volume 2 | |
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| Part II | Biopharmaceuticals and Their Mode of Action | |
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| | Quid pro Quo -- Lysis vs. Coagulation in the Fine-tuned Balance of the Clotting Cascade | 377 |
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| 1 | Mechanisms of Serine Proteinase Activation: Insights for the Development of Biopharmaceuticals for Coagulation and Fibrinolysis Rainer Friedrich | 377 |
| 1.1 | Introduction | 378 |
| 1.2 | Bacterial Activators of Host Zymogens | 381 |
| 1.3 | Some Remarks on Nonproteolytic Activators | 388 |
| 2 | Application of the Principle of Polyvalency to Protease Inhibition Luis Moroder | 395 |
| 2.1 | Introduction | 395 |
| 2.2 | Thermodynamic Model of Bivalent Ligand Binding | 396 |
| 2.3 | Homo- and Heterobivalent Inhibitors of the Yeast 20S Proteasome | 398 |
| 2.4 | Bivalent Inhibition of Mast Cell b-Tryptase | 405 |
| 2.5 | Heterobivalent Inhibition of Thrombin | 411 |
| 2.6 | Perspectives | 414 |
| 3 | A New Technology Standard for Safety and Efficacy in Factor VIII Replacement Therapy: Designing an Advanced Category rFVIII Concentrate Norbert Riedel and Friedrich Dorner | 419 |
| 3.1 | Introduction | 420 |
| 3.2 | Development of rFVIII | 428 |
| 3.3 | Production of rFVIII | 430 |
| 3.4 | Pathogen Safety | 433 |
| 3.5 | Quality Control | 435 |
| 3.6 | Purity and Potency | 435 |
| 3.7 | Preclinical Studies | 436 |
| 3.8 | Clinical Studies | 439 |
| 3.9 | Summary | 447 |
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| | Errare Humanum Est -- What Causes Cancer and How to Selectively Fight Tumors | 451 |
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| 4 | Biopharmaceutical Drugs from Natural Sources David J. Newman, Gordon M. Cragg, and Barry R. O'Keefe | 451 |
| 4.1 | Biotechnologically Produced Proteins and Peptides as Approved Drugs | 452 |
| 4.2 | Potential Agents from Non-mammalian Sources as Leads to Novel Therapies | 481 |
| 4.3 | Overall Concluding Comments | 488 |
| 5 | Biopharmaceuticals as Targeting Vehicles for In situ Radiotherapy of Malignancies Raymond M. Reilly | 497 |
| 5.1 | Introduction | 498 |
| 5.2 | Principles of Targeted In situ Radiotherapy of Malignancies | 499 |
| 5.3 | RIT of Non-Hodgkin's B-Cell Lymphomas: The Pre-eminent Success Story | 500 |
| 5.4 | Other Strategies for In situ Radiotherapy of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma | 505 |
| 5.5 | Radioimmunotherapy of AML: Success but not Cure | 505 |
| 5.6 | RIT of Solid Tumors: Encouraging Results n Minimal Residual Disease | 507 |
| 5.7 | Pre-Targeting Strategies: Improving the Therapeutic Index of RIT | 511 |
| 5.8 | Peptide-Directed In situ Radiotherapy: Targeting Somatostatin Receptors | 516 |
| 5.9 | Auger Electron Radiotherapy: Anti-tumor Effects at the Single Cell Level | 519 |
| 5.10 | -Particle RIT: Anti-tumor Effects at the Multi-cell Level | 525 |
| 5.11 | Conclusion | 526 |
| 6 | New Directions in Tumor Therapy -- Amino Acid Deptetion with GlutaDON(R) as Treatment for Cancer Rolf Kalhammer and Natarajan Sethuraman | 537 |
| 6.1 | Rationale for GlutaDON(R) Therapy | 537 |
| 6.2 | Preclinical Studies | 539 |
| 6.3 | PEGylation and Protection from Inactivation | 541 |
| 6.4 | Toxicology | 545 |
| 6.5 | Clinical Trial | 545 |
| 6.6 | Summary and Conclusions | 546 |
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| | Mundus Vult Decipi -- High Mutation Rates of HIV and New Paradigms for Treatment | 549 |
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| 7 | AIDS Gene Therapy: A Vector Selectively Able to Destroy Latently HIV-1-infected Cells Francisco Luque Vzquez and Ricardo Oya | 549 |
| 7.1 | The Genes and Life Cycle of HIV-1 | 551 |
| 7.2 | Gene Therapy of AIDS | 553 |
| 7.3 | Viral Latency: the Real Challenge | 557 |
| 7.4 | A Vector Able Selectively to Destroy Latently Infected Cells | 559 |
| 8 | Combinatorial RNA-based Therapies for HIV-1 Kevin V. Morris and John J. Rossi | 569 |
| 8.1 | Introduction | 569 |
| 8.2 | RNA-based Antiviral Agents | 570 |
| 8.3 | RNAi: Diversity of Viral Targets | 571 |
| 8.4 | Delivery of siRNAs to Target Cells | 573 |
| 8.5 | Challenges for RNA-based Therapies | 577 |
| 8.6 | Summary and Conclusion | 577 |
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| Part III | Improving the Development of Biopharmaceuticals | |
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| | Citius, Altius, Fortius -- Acceleration by High Throughput and Ultra-HT | 583 |
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| 1 | Design of Modern Biopharmaceuticals by Ultra-high-throughput Screening and Directed Evolution Markus Rarbach, Wayne M. Coco, Andre Koltermann, Ulrich Kettling, and Manfred Eigen | 583 |
| 1.1 | Modern Biopharmaceuticals | 584 |
| 1.2 | Directed Evolution Fundamentals | 585 |
| 1.3 | Generation of Protein Diversity | 586 |
| 1.4 | Selection Strategies | 593 |
| 1.5 | High-throughput and High-content Screening of Protein Libraries | 594 |
| 1.6 | Directed Evolution of Biopharmaceuticals | 598 |
| 1.7 | Conclusions | 601 |
| 2 | Learning from Viruses: High-throughput Cloning using the Gateway System to Transfer Genes without Restriction Enzymes Jonathan D. Chesnut | 605 |
| 2.1 | Introduction | 605 |
| 2.2 | Background | 606 |
| 2.3 | Engineering the Lambda System to Create Gateway | 609 |
| 2.4 | The Gateway Reactions | 610 |
| 2.5 | Creating Gateway Entry Clones | 611 |
| 2.6 | Gateway Destination Vectors | 613 |
| 2.7 | Applications Enabled by Gateway Cloning | 614 |
| 2.8 | HTP Expression Analysis in Mammalian Cells | 614 |
| 2.9 | HTP Cloning and Expression in a Baculovirus System | 615 |
| 2.10 | Multisite Gateway | 616 |
| 2.11 | Creation of Entry Vectors and Three-fragment Multisite Assembly Reaction | 618 |
| 2.12 | Perspective | 621 |
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| | In Vivo Veritas -- Early Target Validation in Knock-out Mice and More | 621 |
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| 3 | Target Validation: An Important Early Step in the Development of Novel Biopharmaceuticals in the Post-genomic Era Christoph P. Bagowski | 621 |
| 3.1 | Introduction | 622 |
| 3.2 | RNA- and DNA-based Techniques for Post-transcriptional Regulation of Molecular Targets, and their Potential as Biopharmaceutical Drugs | 624 |
| 3.3 | Peptide and Protein-based Approaches | 636 |
| 3.4 | Protein Kinases as Targets for Drug Development | 639 |
| 3.5 | Cell-based Assays for In vitro Target Validation„ in the Drug Discovery Process | 640 |
| 3.6 | Animal Models as the Ultimate Target Validation | 645 |
| 3.7 | Summary and Conclusions | 645 |
| 4 | Genetically Modified Mice in Medical and Pharmaceutical Research Cord Brakebusch | 649 |
| 4.1 | Disease-oriented Research in Genetically Modified Mice | 649 |
| 4.2 | Generation of Genetically Modified Mice by Gene Targeting | 651 |
| 4.3 | Analysis of Genetically Modified Mice | 659 |
| 4.4 | Alternative Methods | 659 |
| 5 | An NIH Model Organism for Biopharmaceutical and Biomedical Research: The Lower Eukaryote Dictyostelium discoideum Thomas Winckler, Ilse Zündorf, and Theodor Dingermann | 661 |
| 5.1 | Introduction | 664 |
| 5.2 | The Gene Discovery Tool Box or Dictyostelium Research | 665 |
| 5.3 | Production of Recombinant Proteins in D. discoideum | 672 |
| 5.4 | Dictyostelium dis„coide„um in Biomedical Research | 685 |
| 5.5 | Conclusions | 689 |
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| | Revolution by Evolution -- Rational Design for Desire and Scientific Art of Optimization | 695 |
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| 6 | Releasing the Spring: Cofactor- and Substrate-assisted Activation of Factor IXa Hans Brandstetter and Katrin Sichler | 695 |
| 6.1 | Introduction | 695 |
| 6.2 | The Zymogen Form of fIX is Fully Inactive | 697 |
| 6.3 | Relevance of Tyr99 on the Stability of the 99-loop | 697 |
| 6.4 | Lys98 Hinders Substrate Binding to fIXa both Sterically and Electrostatically | 698 |
| 6.5 | Tyr177 Locks the 99-loop in an Inactive Conformation, which is Released by Cofactor fVIIIa and Modified by the Physiologic Substrate fX | 699 |
| 6.6 | S1 Site Mutations Decrease the Activity of fIXa | 699 |
| 6.7 | Evolutionary Relation of fIXa and fXa is Reflected in the Dependence of Activity Changes on Arg/Lys Substrates | 700 |
| 6.8 | By Binding at the 60-loop Ethylene Glycol Indirectly Reorganizes the 99-loop and Allosterically Stimulates the Activity of fIXa | 700 |
| 6.9 | Summary and Conclusion | 701 |
| 7 | Accelerating Diagnostic Product Development Process with Molecular Rational Design and Directed Evolution Harald Sobek, Rainer Schmuck, and Zhixin Shao | 703 |
| 7.1 | Introduction | 704 |
| 7.2 | Strategies for Optimizing Diagnostic Proteins | 705 |
| 7.3 | Examples | 709 |
| 7.4 | Summary | 717 |
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| | Volume 3 | |
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| Part IV | Production of Biopharmaceuticals | |
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| | The Industry's Workhorses -- Mammalian Expression Systems | 723 |
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| 1 | Manufacture of Recombinant Biopharmaceutical Proteins by Cultivated Mammalian Cells in Bioreactors Florian M. Wurm | 723 |
| 1.1 | Introduction | 724 |
| 1.2 | Vectors, Transfections, and Cell Line Generation | 727 |
| 1.3 | Host Cell Engineering | 731 |
| 1.4 | Gene Transfer and Gene Amplification in Mammalian Cells | 733 |
| 1.5 | Production Principles for Mammalian Cells: Anchorage-dependent Cultures and Suspension Cultures | 737 |
| 1.6 | Large-scale Transient Expression | 744 |
| 1.7 | Regulatory Issues | 745 |
| 1.8 | Concluding Remarks | 751 |
| 2 | Alternative Strategies and New Cell Lines for High-level Production of Biopharmaceuticals Thomas Rose, Karsten Winkler, Elisabeth Brundke, Ingo Jordan and Volker Sandig | 761 |
| 2.1 | Mammalian Cells as a Workhorse to Produce Protein-based Biopharmaceuticals | 761 |
| 2.2 | The Cell Line of Choice | 762 |
| 2.3 | Pushing Expression Levels Impact of Vector Design and Cell Clone Selection | 764 |
| 2.4 | A Single CHO High-producer Clone for Multiple Products | 766 |
| 2.5 | The G-line: Use of the Immunoglobulin Locus of a Human/Mouse Heterohybridoma for Heterologous Gene Expression | 769 |
| 2.6 | Human Designer Cell Lines | 774 |
| 2.7 | Summary and Conclusion | 776 |
| 3 | PER.C6(R) Cells for the Manufacture of Biopharmaceutical Proteins Chris Yallop, John Crowley, Johanne Cote, Kirsten Hegmans-Brouwer, Fija Lagerwerf, Rodney Gagne, Jose Coco Martin, Nico Oosterhuis, Dirk-Jan Opstelten, and Abraham Bout | 779 |
| 3.1 | Introduction | 780 |
| 3.2 | Generation of PER.C6 Cells | 782 |
| 3.3 | PER.C6 Cells for the Manufacture of Recombinant Proteins | 784 |
| 3.4 | Fed-batch Process Development | 789 |
| 3.5 | Operation of PER.C6 Cells in Continuous Perfusion | 794 |
| 3.6 | Characterization of Antibodies Produced by PER.C6 Cells | 797 |
| 3.7 | Conclusion | 803 |
| 4 | Use of the Glutamine Synthetase (GS) Expression System for the Rapid Development of Highly Productive Mammalian Cell Processes John R. Birch, David O. Mainwaring, and Andrew J. Racher | 809 |
| 4.1 | Introduction | 809 |
| 4.2 | Cell Line Construction and Selection | 810 |
| 4.3 | Cell Line Stability | 818 |
| 4.4 | Cell Engineering to Increase Productivity | 819 |
| 4.5 | Selection of Useful Cell Sub-populations | 822 |
| 4.6 | Process Development | 823 |
| 4.7 | Summary | 830 |
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| | Vivat, Crescat, Floreat -- A Ripe and Blooming Market for Transgenic Animals and Plants | 833 |
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| 5 | Biopharmaceuticals Derived from Transgenic Plants and Animals Julio Baez | 833 |
| 5.1 | Introduction | 834 |
| 5.2 | Advantages and Disadvantages of Transgenic Systems for the Production of Biopharmaceuticals | 845 |
| 5.3 | Commercial Biopharmaceuticals with Human Clinical Experience for Therapeutic, Immunoprophylactic, and Medical Device Use derived from Transgenic Systems | 852 |
| 5.4 | Conclusions | 873 |
| 6 | Production of Recombinant Proteins in Plants Victor Klimyuk, Sylvestre Marillonnet, Jörg Knäblein, Michael McCaman, and Yuri Gleba | 893 |
| 6.1 | Introduction | 893 |
| 6.2 | Plant-based Expression Systems | 894 |
| 6.3 | Plant-made Recombinant Proteins available Commercially, and under Development | 903 |
| 6.4 | Comparative Analysis of the Expression Systems and Production Platforms | 907 |
| 6.5 | Summary and Conclusion | 909 |
| 7 | Humanized Glycosylation: Production of Biopharmaceuticals in a Moss Bioreactor Gilbert Gorr and Sabrina Wagner | 919 |
| 7.1 | Introduction | 919 |
| 7.2 | Mosses: Some General Aspects | 920 |
| 7.3 | Cell Culture | 922 |
| 7.4 | Recombinant Expression | 923 |
| 7.5 | N-Glycosylation | 924 |
| 7.6 | Conclusions and Outlook | 927 |
| 8 | ExpressTec: High-level Expression of Biopharmaceuticals in Cereal Grains Ning Huang and Daichang Yang | 931 |
| 8.1 | Introduction | 931 |
| 8.2 | Development of ExpressTec for High-level Expression of Recombinant Proteins in Cereal Grains | 932 |
| 8.3 | High-level Expression of Biopharmaceuticals in Cereal Grain using ExpressTec | 938 |
| 8.4 | Impact of Expression Level on the Cost of Goods | 945 |
| 8.5 | Perspectives of Expressing Biopharmaceuticals„ in High Plants | 946 |
| 9 | Biopharmaceutical Production in Cultured Plant Cells Stefan Schillberg, Richard M. Twyman, and Rainer Fischer | 949 |
| 9.1 | Introduction | 950 |
| 9.2 | Recombinant Proteins Produced in Plant Cell Suspension Cultures | 951 |
| 9.3 | Challenges and Solutions for the Production of Recombinant Proteins | 954 |
| 9.4 | Process Engineering | 958 |
| 9.5 | Downstream Processing | 959 |
| 9.6 | Regulatory Considerations | 960 |
| 9.7 | Conclusions | 961 |
| 10 | Producing Biopharmaceuticals in the Desert: Building an Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants for Salt, Heat, and Drought Shimon Gepstein, Anil Grover, and Eduardo Blumwald | 967 |
| 10.1 | General Comments on Abiotic Stresses | 968 |
| 10.2 | Drought and Salt Tolerance | 969 |
| 10.3 | High-temperature Stress | 981 |
| 10.4 | Conclusions and Perspectives | 989 |
| 11 | The First Biopharmaceutical from Transgenic Animals: ATryn Yann Echelard, Harry M. Meade, and Carol A. Ziomek | 995 |
| 11.1 | Introduction | 996 |
| 11.2 | Recombinant Production of AT | 998 |
| 11.3 | Characterization of rhAT | 1003 |
| 11.4 | Preclinical Studies | 1007 |
| 11.5 | Clinical Trials with rhAT | 1011 |
| 11.6 | Conclusions | 1016 |
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| | Alea Non Iacta Est -- Improving Established Expression Systems | 1021 |
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| 12 | Producing Modern Biopharmaceuticals: The Bayer HealthCare Pharma Experience with a Range of Expression Systems Heiner Apeler | 1021 |
| 12.1 | The Escherichia coli Expression Platform | 1022 |
| 12.2 | The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Expression Platform | 1027 |
| 12.3 | The HKB11 Expression Platform | 1029 |
| 12.4 | Outlook and Conclusion | 1031 |
| 13 | Advanced Expression of Biopharmaceuticals in Yeast at Industrial Scale: The Insulin Success Story Asser Sloth Andersen and Ivan Diers | 1033 |
| 13.1 | Introduction | 1033 |
| 13.2 | Design and Optimization of the Insulin Precursor Molecule | 1036 |
| 13.3 | Production of Insulin | 1041 |
| 13.4 | Conclusions and Future Aspects | 1042 |
| 14 | Baculovirus-based Production of Biopharmaceuticals using Insect Cell Culture Processes Wilfried Weber and Martin Fussenegger | 1045 |
| 14.1 | Introduction | 1045 |
| 14.2 | Molecular Tools for the Construction of Transgenic Baculoviruses | 1046 |
| 14.3 | Insect Cell Culture | 1047 |
| 14.4 | Insect Cell Glycosylation and Glycoengineering | 1047 |
| 14.5 | Nutrient and Kinetic Considerations for Optimized BEVS-based Protein Production | 1048 |
| 14.6 | Scaling-up Baculovirus-based Protein Production | 1050 |
| 14.7 | Generic Protocol of Optimized Protein Production | 1050 |
| 14.8 | Case study: Rapid Optimization of Expression Conditions and Large-scale Production of a Brutons Tyrosine Kinase Variant (BTK) | 1053 |
| 14.9 | Conclusion | 1058 |
| 15 | Robust and Cost-effective Cell-free Expression of Biopharmaceuticals: Escherichia Coli and Wheat Embryo Luke Anthony Miles | 1063 |
| 15.1 | Introduction | 1064 |
| 15.2 | Transcription | 1066 |
| 15.3 | Translational | 1068 |
| 15.4 | Treatment of Extracts for Synthesis of Disulfide-bonded Proteins | 1072 |
| 15.5 | ATP Regeneration Systems | 1074 |
| 15.6 | Reaction Conditions | 1075 |
| 15.7 | Conclusion | 1079 |
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| | When Success Raises its Ugly Head -- Outsourcing to Uncork the Capacity Bottleneck | 1083 |
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| 16 | Contract Manufacturing of Biopharmaceuticals Including Antibodies or Antibody Fragments J. Carsten Hempel and Philipp N. Hess | 1083 |
| 16.1 | Introduction | 1084 |
| 16.2 | Expression Systems and Manufacturing Procedures | 1085 |
| 16.3 | Outsourcing and Contract Manufacturing | 1089 |
| 16.4 | Summary and Outlook | 1100 |
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| Part V | Biopharmaceuticals used for Diagnositics and Imaging | |
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| | From Hunter to Craftsman -- Engineering Antibodies with Nature's Universal Toolbox | 1105 |
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| 1 | Thirty Years of Monoclonal Antibodies: A Long Way to Pharmaceutical and Commercial Success Uwe Gottschalk and Kirsten Mundt | 1105 |
| 1.1 | Introduction | 1107 |
| 1.2 | Making Monoclonal Antibodies | 1109 |
| 1.3 | Other Antibody Formats: Antibody Fragments | 1113 |
| 1.4 | Medical Application Areas for MAbs | 1116 |
| 1.5 | From Initial Failure to Success: Getting the Target Right | 1117 |
| 1.6 | The Market Perspective | 1119 |
| 1.7 | Drug Targeting: The Next Generation in Cancer Treatment | 1122 |
| 1.8 | Developing a Manufacturing Process for MAbs | 1126 |
| 1.9 | Routine Manufacture of MAbs | 1127 |
| 1.10 | Glycosylation and Other Post-translational Modifications | 1132 |
| 1.11 | Emerging Issues in MAb Production | 1134 |
| 1.12 | The Future of MAbs | 1136 |
| 2 | Modern Antibody Technology: The Impact on Drug Development Simon Moroney and Andreas Plückthun | 1147 |
| 2.1 | Introduction | 1147 |
| 2.2 | Immunogenicity | 1148 |
| 2.3 | Technology | 1153 |
| 2.4 | Reaching the Target: The Importance of Specificity, Affinity and Format | 1163 |
| 2.5 | Exerting an Effect at the Target | 1168 |
| 2.6 | Antibodies in their Natural Habitat: Infectious Diseases | 1175 |
| 2.7 | Opportunities for New Therapeutic Applications Provided by Synthetic Antibodies | 1176 |
| 2.8 | Future Directions and Concluding Statements | 1177 |
| 3 | Molecular Characterization of Autoantibody Responses in Autoimmune Diseases: Implications for Diagnosis and Understanding of Autoimmunity Constanze Breithaupt | 1187 |
| 3.1 | Autoantibodies in Autoimmune Diseases | 1188 |
| 3.2 | Autoantibody Epitopes | 1190 |
| 3.3 | Visualization of Epitopes | 1195 |
| 3.4 | Structural Characterization of AutoantibodyAutoantigen Complexes | 1199 |
| 3.5 | Conclusions | 1205 |
| | | |
| | Find, Fight, and Follow -- Target-specific Troika from Mother Nature's Pharmacopoiea | 1211 |
| | | |
| 4 | Molecular Imaging and Applications for Pharmaceutical R&D Joke G. Orsel and Tobias Schaeffter | 1211 |
| 4.1 | Introduction | 1212 |
| 4.2 | Imaging Modalities and Contrast Agents | 1213 |
| 4.3 | Molecular Imaging | 1225 |
| 4.4 | Molecular Imaging for Drug Discovery and Development | 1230 |
| 4.5 | Concluding Remarks | 1239 |
| 5 | Design and Development of Probes for In vivo Molecular and Functional Imaging of Cancer and Cancer Therapies by Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Eric O. Aboagye | 1243 |
| 5.1 | What is Positron Emission Tomography? | 1244 |
| 5.2 | Radiochemistry Considerations | 1246 |
| 5.3 | Pharmacological Objectives in Oncology Imaging Studies | 1249 |
| 5.4 | The Use of Radiolabeled Drugs to Image Tumor and Normal Tissue Pharmacokinetics | 1250 |
| 5.5 | Pharmacodynamic Studies | 1254 |
| 5.6 | Conclusions | 1264 |
| 6 | Ligand-based Targeting of Disease: From Antibodies to Small Organic (Synthetic) Ligands Michela Silacci and Dario Neri | 1271 |
| 6.1 | Introduction | 1272 |
| 6.2 | Ligands | 1273 |
| 6.3 | Classes of Diseases | 1276 |
| 6.4 | From a Ligand to a Product | 1288 |
| 6.5 | Concluding Remarks | 1289 |
| 7 | Ultrasound Theranostics: Antibody-based Microbubble Conjugates as Targeted In vivo Contrast Agents and Advanced Drug Delivery Systems Andreas Briel, Michael Reinhardt, Mathias Mäurer, and Peter Hauff | 1301 |
| 7.1 | Motivation: ´´Find, Fight and Follow!´´ | 1302 |
| 7.2 | Ultrasound: ´´Hear the Symptoms´´ | 1304 |
| 7.3 | Ultrasound Contrast: ´´Tiny Bubbles´´ | 1305 |
| 7.4 | The Perfect Modality: ´´Sensitive Particle Acoustic Quantification (SPAQ)´´ | 1308 |
| 7.5 | Targeting and Molecular Imaging: ´´The Sound of an Antibody´´ | 1309 |
| 7.6 | Drug Delivery: ´´The Magic Bullet´´ | 1315 |
| 7.7 | Ultrasound, Microbubbles and Gene Delivery: ´´Noninvasive Micro-Gene Guns´´ | 1318 |
| 7.8 | Summary: Ultrasound Theranostics ´´Building a Bridge between Therapy and Diagnosis´´ | 1320 |
| | | |
| | Getting Insight -- Sense the Urgency for Early Diagnostics | 1325 |
| | | |
| 8 | Development of Multi-marker-based Diagnostic Assays with the ProteinChip(R) System Andreas Wiesner | 1325 |
| 8.1 | The Urgency of Earlier Diagnosis | 1326 |
| 8.2 | Proteins are Best Choice Again | 1327 |
| 8.3 | Current Tools for Protein Biomarker Detection | 1328 |
| 8.4 | The ProteinChip(R) System at a Glance | 1329 |
| 8.5 | Distinctions of the SELDI Process | 1333 |
| 8.6 | The Pattern TrackTM Process: From Biomarker Discovery to Assay Development | 1334 |
| 8.7 | Protein Variants as Disease Markers | 1337 |
| 8.8 | Conclusion and Outlook | 1338 |
| 9 | Early Detection of Lung Cancer: Metabolic Profiling of Human Breath with Ion Mobility Spectrometers Jörg Ingo Baumbach, Wolfgang Vautz, Vera Ruzsanyi, and Lutz Freitag | 1343 |
| 9.1 | Introduction | 1343 |
| 9.2 | Material and Methods: IMS | 1345 |
| 9.3 | Results and Discussion | 1347 |
| 9.4 | Clinical Study | 1349 |
| 9.5 | Conclusions | 1354 |
| | | |
| | Volume 4 | |
| | | |
| Part VI | Advanced Application Routes for Biopharmaceuticals | |
| | | |
| | Getting Inside -- Quest for the Best and How to Improve Delivery | 1361 |
| | | |
| 1 | Advanced Drug Delivery Systems for Biopharmaceuticals Gesine E. Hildebrand and Stephan Harnisch | 1361 |
| 1.1 | Introduction | 1362 |
| 1.2 | Challenges for the Administration of Biopharmaceuticals | 1363 |
| 1.3 | Drug Delivery Strategies | 1366 |
| 1.4 | Outlook | 1384 |
| | | |
| | Pathfinder -- New Ways for Peptides, Proteins and Co | 1393 |
| | | |
| 2 | Poly(ethylene) Glycol Conjugates of Biopharmaceuticals in Drug Delivery Michael D. Bentley, Mary J. Bossard, Kevin W. Burton, and Tacey X. Viegas | 1393 |
| 2.1 | Introduction | 1394 |
| 2.2 | The Polymer | 1394 |
| 2.3 | Safety and Disposition of PEG | 1396 |
| 2.4 | PEG Reagents and Conjugation | 1397 |
| 2.5 | Biopharmaceutical Conjugates | 1400 |
| 2.6 | PEGylation of Peptides | 1407 |
| 2.7 | Formulations of PEGylated Biopharmaceuticals | 1408 |
| 2.8 | Analysis of PEG-conjugates | 1411 |
| 2.9 | Summary and Future Outlook | 1415 |
| 3 | Novel Vaccine Adjuvants Based on Cationic Peptide Delivery Systems Karen Lingnau, Christoph Klade, Michael Buschle, and Alexander von Gabain | 1419 |
| 3.1 | Vaccines and their Importance in the Fight against Human Diseases | 1420 |
| 3.2 | Adjuvants: An Overview | 1423 |
| 3.3 | Cationic Peptides as Novel Vaccine Adjuvants | 1426 |
| 3.4 | Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides (CAMP) as Novel Adjuvants | 1433 |
| 3.5 | Cationic Peptide Delivery Systems in Combination with Other Adjuvants | 1437 |
| 3.6 | The Development of IC31 and Future Prospects | 1440 |
| 3.7 | Conclusions | 1440 |
| 4 | The Evolving Role of OralinTM (Oral Spray Insulin) in the Treatment of Diabetes using a Novel RapidMistTM Diabetes Management System Pankaj Modi | 1445 |
| 4.1 | Introduction | 1446 |
| 4.2 | Rationale for OralinTM Development | 1446 |
| 4.3 | The Benefits of OralinTM | 1447 |
| | | |
| 4.4 | The Preparation and Pharmaceutical Properties of OralinTM | 1448 |
| 4.5 | Phase II, Long-term Safety and Efficacy Study | 1457 |
| 4.6 | Conclusions | 1460 |
| 5 | Improvement of Intestinal Absorption of Peptide and Protein Biopharmaceuticals by Various Approaches Akira Yamamoto | 1463 |
| 5.1 | Improvement of Peptide and Protein Absorption | 1464 |
| 5.2 | Use of Protease Inhibitors | 1467 |
| 5.3 | Chemical Modification of Peptide and Protein Biopharmaceuticals | 1472 |
| 5.4 | Chitosan Capsules for the Colon-specific Delivery of Insulin | 1480 |
| 5.3 | Conclusion | 1484 |
| | | |
| | Via Mala -- the Stoney Road of DNA Delivery: Back-pack, Feed-back, and Pay-back | 1487 |
| | | |
| 6 | DNA Vaccine Delivery from Poly(ortho ester) Microspheres Chun Wang, Herman N. Eisen, Robert Langer, and Jorge Heller | 1487 |
| 6.1 | Introduction | 1488 |
| 6.2 | Poly(Ortho Esters) | 1494 |
| 6.3 | Preparation and Characterization of Microspheres | 1496 |
| 6.4 | In vivo Evaluation of Immune Responses | 1500 |
| 6.5 | Concluding Remarks | 1503 |
| 7 | Liposomal In vivo Gene Delivery Shigeru Kawakami, Fumiyoshi Yamashita, and Mitsuru Hashida | 1507 |
| 7.1 | Cationic Charge-mediated In vivo Gene Transfer to the Lung | 1510 |
| 7.2 | Asialoglycoprotein Receptor-mediated In vivo Gene Transfer to Hepatocytes | 1512 |
| 7.3 | Mannose Receptor-mediated In vivo Gene Transfer to Macrophages | 1513 |
| 7.4 | Folate Receptor-mediated In vivo Gene Transfer to Cancer Cells | 1515 |
| 7.5 | Transferrin Receptor-mediated In vivo Gene Transfer to Brain | 1517 |
| 7.6 | Conclusions | 1517 |
| 8 | Programmed Packaging: A New Drug Delivery System and its Application to Gene Therapy Kentaro Kogure, Hidetaka Akita, Hiroyuki Kamiya, and Hideyoshi Harashima | 1521 |
| 8.1 | New Concept for Gene Delivery | 1521 |
| 8.2 | Controlled Intracellular Trafficking | 1525 |
| 8.3 | Transgene Expression and Gene Correction | 1531 |
| 8.4 | Towards Clinical Applications of Transgene Expression and Gene Correction | 1534 |
| | | |
| | Getting Beyond -- Rocket Science vs. Science Fiction | 1537 |
| | | |
| 9 | Bionanotechnology and its Role to Improve Biopharmaceuticals Oliver Kayser | 1537 |
| 9.1 | Introduction | 1537 |
| 9.2 | Drug and Gene Delivery | 1539 |
| 9.3 | Gene Delivery | 1543 |
| 9.4 | Biosensors | 1544 |
| 9.5 | Implants and Tissue Engineering | 1546 |
| 9.8 | Safety Aspects | 1548 |
| 9.7 | Conclusions and Future Trends | 1550 |
| | | |
| Part VII | From Transcription to Prescription of Biopharmaceuticals | |
| | | |
| | Dosis Facit Venenum -- The Therapeutic Window between Systemic Toxicity and Lack of Efficacy | 1557 |
| | | |
| 1 | Analytics in Quality Control and In vivo Michael Hildebrand | 1557 |
| 1.1 | Introduction | 1558 |
| 1.2 | Quality Control | 1559 |
| 1.3 | Classes of Biopharmaceuticals | 1560 |
| 1.4 | Analytical Methods and Specifications | 1560 |
| 1.5 | International Guidelines on Quality Control | 1571 |
| 1.6 | Analytics In vivo | 1573 |
| 1.7 | Conclusions | 1577 |
| 2 | Design, Development and Optimization: Crystal Structures of Microsomal Cytochromes P450 Dijana Matak Vinkovic\', Sheena Whyte, Harren Jhoti, Jose Cosme, and Pamela A. Williams | 1581 |
| 2.1 | P450: The Background | 1581 |
| 2.2 | Importance of P450s for Drug Development | 1582 |
| 2.3 | Variability and Drug Metabolism | 1583 |
| 2.4 | The Structure of Cytochrome P450 | 1584 |
| 2.5 | Conclusions | 1599 |
| 3 | MettoxTM: A Suite of Predictive In silico and In vitro Assays for Metabolic and Genotoxicological Profiling of Preclinical Drug Candidates Michael Murray | 1603 |
| 3.1 | Issues and Economics of Early ADMET (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion„ and Toxicity) Assessment | 1604 |
| 3.2 | Phase I Metabolism Prediction: Computational„ Approaches | 1608 |
| 3.3 | Phase I Metabolism Prediction: In vitro Techniques | 1613 |
| 3.4 | Genotoxicity Prediction | 1624 |
| 3.5 | Conclusions | 1634 |
| | | |
| | Happy End: Claim to Fame and Approval | 1637 |
| | | |
| 4 | Considerations for Developing Biopharmaceuticals: FDA Perspective Kurt Brorson, Patrick G. Swann, Janice Brown, Barbara Wilcox, and Marjorie A. Shapiro | 1637 |
| 4.1 | Introduction | 1638 |
| 4.2 | Regulatory Authority | 1639 |
| 4.3 | Overview of Product Development: CMC Perspective | 1643 |
| 4.4 | Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls Considerations | 1645 |
| 4.5 | Quality Control and Assurance | 1647 |
| 4.6 | Microbial Issues Specific to Biopharmaceuticals | 1650 |
| 4.7 | Process Validation | 1653 |
| 4.8 | Inspectional Considerations | 1653 |
| 4.9 | Biotech Development: Lessons Learned and Issues Overcome by Industry and FDA | 1654 |
| 4.10 | FDA Initiatives to Improve the Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Development Process | 1661 |
| 5 | The Regulatory Environment for Biopharmaceuticals in the EU Axel F. Wenzel and Carina E.A. Sonnega | 1669 |
| 5.1 | Introduction | 1673 |
| 5.2 | History and Background | 1673 |
| 5.3 | The Competent Regulatory Bodies | 1676 |
| 5.4 | What is the EU Authorities' Definition of a Biotechnological Product? | 1681 |
| 5.5 | The Regulatory Framework | 1682 |
| 5.6 | CP: The ´´Biotech´´ Procedure | 1683 |
| 5.7 | From Transcription to Prescription: What is Different for Biotechnological Drugs? | 1688 |
| 5.8 | Biogenerics | 1700 |
| 5.9 | Conclusions and Outlook | 1701 |
| | | |
| Part VIII | From Bench to Bedside -- The Aftermaths | |
| | | |
| | Think Big and Dealmaking for Growth -- Global Changes in the Health-care Sector | 1711 |
| 1 | Healthcare Trends and their Impact on the Biopharmaceutical Industry: Biopharmaceuticals Come of Age Alexander Moscho, Markus A. Schäfer, and Kristin Yarema | 1711 |
| 1.1 | Introduction | 1712 |
| 1.2 | Despite Robust Demand the Industry Faces Severe Challenges | 1713 |
| 1.3 | Why Biopharmaceuticals can Succeed in Rougher Markets | 1724 |
| 1.4 | Biopharmaceutical Players Will Need to Adapt their Portfolios and Business Models | 1728 |
| 1.5 | Conclusions and Outlook | 1738 |
| | | |
| | News and Views -- Quo Vadis, Biopharmaceuticals? | 1741 |
| | | |
| 2 | mondoBIOTECH: The Swiss biotech BOUTIQUE Dorian Bevec and Fabio Cavalli | 1741 |
| 2.1 | Introduction | |
| 2.2 | Product Platforms | 1742 |
| 2.3 | Interferon- + Genechip | 1750 |
| 2.4 | Bacteriophages | 1751 |
| 2.5 | Outlook for the Company | 1752 |
| 3 | G-CSF and Bioequivalence: The Emergence of Healthcare Economics James Harris, III | 1755 |
| 3.1 | Introduction | 1756 |
| 3.2 | Biogenerics and Bioequivalence | 1756 |
| 3.3 | Summary and Outlook | 1767 |
| | Light at the End of the Tunnel or Back to the Roots? | 1771 |
| 4 | Bioinformatics: From Peptides to Profiled Leads Paul Wrede and Matthias Filter | 1771 |
| 4.1 | Introduction | 1772 |
| 4.2 | Basic Concepts of Virtual Drug Discovery | 1773 |
| 4.3 | Pep2Lead Concept | 1778 |
| 4.4 | ADMETox Profiling | 1785 |
| 4.5 | Outlook | 1798 |
| 5 | Engineering and Overproduction of Polyketide Natural Products Martha Lovato Tse and Chaitan Khosla | 1803 |
| 5.1 | Introduction | 1804 |
| 5.2 | Polyketide Synthases | 1806 |
| 5.3 | Engineering PKSs to Produce Novel Polyketides | 1815 |
| 5.4 | Development of Scalable Production Processes | 1820 |
| 5.5 | Conclusions | 1825 |
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| | | |
| | Epilog | 1833 |
| | | |
| | More about the Editor | 1835 |
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| | Supplement CD-ROM | 1837 |
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| | Subject Index | 1841 |