METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PRODUCTION OF MULTIMERIC PROTEINS IN TRANSGENIC PLANTS

摘要

This invention is related to the field of methods and compositions for production of multimeric proteins in transgenic plants. The invention provides a method for producing a heterologous multimeric protein in a transgenic plant cell by transforming a plant cell with a plurality of naked plasmids. Each plasmid encodes less than all of the polypeptide components of the multimeric protein, and the plurality of transformed plasmids encodes all of the polypeptide components of the multimeric protein. The invention also provides a transgenic plant or plant cell expressing a multimeric protein that is heterologous to the plant cell.