How Important Is Cost? Reagents obviously figure into the cost of a procedure, but the labor required to produce and apply the reagents of purification should also be considered. How Important Is Reproducibility (Robustness) of the Procedure?
Recombinant gene expression in eukaryotic systems is often the only viable route to the large-scale production of authentic, posttranslationally modified proteins. It is becoming increasingly easy to find a suitable system to overexpress virtually any gene product