Abstract:Sialylation can improve the physicochemical properties of therapeutic recombinant proteins, such as prolonging the half-life, enhancing the penetrating power and inhibiting inflammatory responses. However, the efficiency of N-glycosylation and sialylation hardly reaches 100%, bringing about the difficulty in homogeneous and large-scale production of sialylated recombinant proteins. Therefore, strengthening the homogeneity of human-like N-glycosylated therapeutic recombinant proteins still represents one of the foci of glycoprotein drug development. This review is centered on the approaches to increasing the efficiency of N-glycosylation of therapeutic recombinant proteins and the production process of homogeneous human-like N-glycosylation of sialylated glycoepitopes in therapeutic recombinant proteins.