Vmax™ Express is a novel, fast-growing bacterial strain designed and optimized for high levels of recombinant protein expression. These easy to transform, chemically competent cells are designed to generate large amounts of soluble protein. This can serve as a replacement for problematic E. coli expression systems.

Vmax™ cells are derived from the marine microorganism, Vibrio natriegens. This gram-negative, non-pathogenic bacterium has a doubling time twice as fast as that of E. coli and can produce greater amounts of biomass and generate large amounts of protein in a shorter time. With a workflow similar to E. coli, this next-generation prokaryotic protein expression system can serve as a replacement for slow growing protein expression systems prone to low yields and the generation of proteins as insoluble inclusion bodies.