Expression systems
Takara Bio offers an assortment of different technologies for protein expression: bacterial, cell-free, insect, and mammalian expression systems, including specialized expression tools for proteins that pose challenges, such as insolubility, intracellular toxicity, and difficulty in achieving correct folding.
Choose your protein expression system
Protein expression overview
Learn about bacterial, cell-free, insect, and mammalian expression systems.
Technical notes
High expression of functional OKT3 monoclonal antibodies in mammalian cells
pHEK293 Ultra Expression Vectors provide ultra-high expression of recombinant proteins, including antibodies, in mammalian cells.
Transient overexpression of recombinant proteins in mammalian cells
Ultra-high, transient overexpression of a protein of interest in human HEK 293 cells.
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