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Table 4 Vaccine antigens and biopharmaceuticals engineered via chloroplast genome of higher plants

From: Recent achievements obtained by chloroplast transformation

Traits

Gene

Expression

Host plant

References

HIV/AIDS

gp120, gp41

16 μg g−1 FW

Tobacco

[70]

Human papiloma virus

GUS-E7

3–4% TSB

Tobacco

[71]

Polio virus

CTB-VP1

4–5% TSP

Tobacco

[72]

Tuberculosis antigens

CTB-SAT6CTB-Mtb72F

7.5% TSP

Tobacco

[73]

CTB-ESAT6

0.75% TSP

Lettuce

[73]

Bacterial

Pa

2.5–4% TSP

Tobacco

[74]

Dengue virus

EDIII

0.8–1.6 TSP

Tobacco

[75]

Bacterial phage lytic `protein

plyGBS

>70% TSP

Tobacco

[76]

Pompe disease

CTB-GAA

0.1–0.2 TLP

Tobacco

[77]

Thioredoxin 1

hTx1

15 TSP

Lettuce

[78]

Insulin liken growth factors

IGF-1n

32% TSP

Tobacco

[79]

Endolysin Cpl-1

Cpl-1

10% TSP

Tobacco

[80]

Interferon-α2b(IFN-α2b)

IFN-a2b

21% TSP

Tobacco

[81]

Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF)

bFGF

0.1% TSP

Tobacco

[82]