植物藥生產的新發現

Scientists of Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands have found the glycosylation of proteins in plants.瓦赫寧根大學和荷蘭研究中心的科學家發現了植物中蛋白質的糖基化作用。 Proteins in plants, animals and people are full of various sugar chains in a process known as glycosylation.植物，動物和人類中的蛋白質在稱為糖基化的過程中充滿了各種糖鏈。 The sugar chains are important to the functioning of many proteins.糖鏈對許多蛋白質的功能很重要。 What's more, their identity and uniformity is crucial to the quality of therapeutic proteins.而且，它們的同一性和均勻性對於治療性蛋白質的質量至關重要。
The glycosylation of proteins in plants, people and animals principally consists of three stages.植物，人和動物中蛋白質的糖基化主要包括三個階段。 Primordially sugar chains are constructed, which then attach to the protein in specific locations.構建原糖鏈，然後將糖鏈連接到特定位置的蛋白質上。 Finally, the sugar chains are further modified as specific sugars are attached to the chain.最後，當特定的糖附著在糖鏈上時，糖鏈被進一步修飾。 The scientists expect that this knowledge will allow plants to be applied more often in the production of therapeutic proteins, an important type of medicine.科學家們希望，這種知識將使植物更經常地用於生產治療性蛋白質（一種重要的藥物）。