This system will complement the current LP3 capabilities to express proteins in bacteria and yeast. The BEVS, being a eukaryotic expression system, has its strength in producing proteins from higher eukaryotic organisms that have failed to be produced in E. coli and a strong track record for production of membrane proteins, large proteins and multi-subunit complexes, for structural as well as functional studies.
Eukaryotic expression system
Right now LP3 is in the process of establishing the Baculovirus Expression Vector System (BEVS) – a system for expression of recombinant proteins in insect cells.