List of recombinant proteins

Since human recombinants have replaced the animal version in human therapeutics, the prefix of "rh" for "human recombinant" appears less and less in the literature

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1 Human recombinants that replaced animal or harvested from human types
2 Human recombinants with recombination as only source
3 Animal recombinants
4 Viral recombinants

Human recombinants that replaced animal or harvested from human types

Human growth hormone (rhGH) Humatrope® from Lilly; and Serostim® from Serono replaced cadaver harvested human growth hormone
Human insulin (rhI) Humulin® from Lilly replaced bovine and porcine insulin for human therapy
Follicle-stimulating hormone FSH replaced Serono's Pergonal which was previously isolated from post-menopausal female urine
Factor VIII Kogenate® from Bayer replaced blood harvested factor VIII

Human recombinants with recombination as only source

Erythropoietin (EPO) Epogen® from Amgen
Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) filgrastim sold as Neupogen® from Amgen; pegfilgrastim sold as Neulasta®
alpha-glactosidase A Fabrazyme® by Genzyme
alpha-L-iduronidase (rhIDU; laronidase) Aldurazyme® by BioMarin Pharmaceutical and Genzyme
N-acetylgalactosamine-4-sulfatase (rhASB; galsulfase) Naglazyme (TM) by BioMarin Pharmaceutical
DNAse Pulmozyme® by Genentech
Tissue plasminogen activator (TPA) Activase® by Genentech
Glucocerebrosidase Ceredase® by Genzyme
Interferon (IF) Interferon-beta-1a as Rebif® from Serono; Interferon beta-1b as Betaseron® from Schering
Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1)