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Discover StorPro organelles
Zera® technology

Enhances eukaryotic production lines


Downstream issues and difficult proteins make the production of biopharmaceuticals a costly proposition, despite multiple g/l titers of secreted proteins. ERA Biotech offers something different. Its Zera® technology boosts the productivity of known cell lines, simplifies purification and standardizes process development, thanks to three neat natural attributes: in vivo encapsulation, one-step concentration by density and Zera®-specific affinity capture.

Zera® is a protein production enhancement system that enables high protein titers and creates opportunities for cost-effective recovery of protein products. The proprietary technology provides for highly concentrated protein recovery which reduces handling and equipment volumes and serves as a purification tag. Zera® improves productivity in most eukaryotic production lines and is available for licensing (drug development, drug discovery and R&D) from the Barcelona-based ERA Biotech.



ERA’s technology has two components:
  • The StorPro™ organelles formed by Zera fusions safely sequester large quantities of properly folded recombinant proteins. StorPro® organelles both protect the cell factory from deleterious or toxic properties of the target product, and shield the accumulating recombinant proteins from proteolytic degradation and undesirable host-specific modifications. The assembled storage organelles are amenable to isolation by pre-purification density separation protocols, thus allowing high protein-product concentrations prior to downstream purification.
Zera® assembler peptides and StorPro® organelles deliver a novel approach for optimizing both the expression and purification of recombinant proteins.