Cellectis bioresearch, the genome customization specialist and a commercial subsidiary of French biotech firm Cellectis (Alternext: ALCLS), and Switzerland’s Lonza (SIX: LONN) have reached a significant milestone in the development of a newly bioengineered cell line. Details of the payment from Lonza triggered by this milestone were not disclosed.
Using its proprietary meganuclease technology, Cellectis bioresearch successfully managed to deactivate ("knock-out") the cell-based glutamine synthetase (GS) in CHO-K1SV, Lonza's proprietary host cell line. This achievement comes as part of an overall strategic plan to further advance the GS Gene Expression System offering and is expected to contribute to shortened development timelines critical for the early phases of bioproduction.
"We are very pleased to deliver Lonza's engineered cell line ahead of time and to demonstrate the great potential of meganucleases for knock-outs in the bioproduction field," said Christophe Delenda, chief scientific officer of Cellectis bioresearch.
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