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Biotechnol Prog ; 25(1): 95-102, 2009.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19224559

ABSTRACT

Three popular expression host systems Escherichia coli, Pichia pastoris and Drosophila S2 were analyzed techno-economically using HIV-1 Nef protein as the model product. On scale of 100 mg protein, the labor costs corresponded to 52-83% of the manufacturing costs. When analyzing the cost impact of the different phases (strain/cell line construction, bioreactor production, and primary purification), we found that with the microbial host systems the strain construction phase was most significant generating 56% (E. coli) and 72% (P. pastoris) of the manufacturing costs, whereas with the Drosophila S2 system the cell line construction and bioreactor production phases were equally significant (46 and 47% of the total costs, respectively). With different titers and production goal of 100 mg of Nef protein, the costs of P. pastoris and Drosophila S2 systems were about two and four times higher than the respective costs of the E. coli system. When equal titers and bioreactor working volumes (10 L) were assumed for all three systems, the manufacturing costs of the bioreactor production of the P. pastoris and Drosophila S2 systems were about two and 2.5 times higher than the respective costs of the E. coli system.


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Protein Engineering/economics , Protein Engineering/methods , Recombinant Proteins/metabolism , nef Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/metabolism , Animals , Cell Line , Drosophila , Escherichia coli/genetics , Escherichia coli/metabolism , Pichia/genetics , Pichia/metabolism , Recombinant Proteins/genetics , nef Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/genetics
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Appl Microbiol Biotechnol ; 79(5): 803-10, 2008 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18431568

ABSTRACT

A new expression system for Lactococcus lactis was developed. The system is based on a phosphate starvation inducible pstF promoter of L. lactis MG1363. Intracellular beta-galactosidase and secreted alpha-amylase were produced using this tightly regulated system. No evidence of regulatory sites in regions of the 5'-end of the pstF coding sequence was found. High expression levels of the beta-galactosidase gene were obtained using the original pstF RBS in a phosphate-depleted medium. The results suggested that with the phosphate starvation inducible system, it is possible to achieve expression levels comparable to the ones obtained with the widely used nisin-controlled gene expression system (NICE). A specific beta-galactosidase activity of 670 microkat g(-1) using a phosphate-depleted medium and an alpha-amylase activity of 3.6 microkat l(-1) in a bioreactor cultivation were produced. The advantages of the current expression system include that no prior removal of phosphate from the medium in bioreactor scale is required, and no additions of inducing agents are needed. Furthermore, the system can be operated in L. lactis without introduction of regulatory genes into the host.


Subject(s)
Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial , Lactococcus lactis/genetics , Lactococcus lactis/metabolism , Phosphates/metabolism , Bacterial Proteins/genetics , Bacterial Proteins/metabolism , Bioreactors , Molecular Sequence Data , Nisin/metabolism , Promoter Regions, Genetic , Transcription, Genetic , alpha-Amylases/genetics , alpha-Amylases/metabolism , beta-Galactosidase/genetics , beta-Galactosidase/metabolism
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Biotechnol Appl Biochem ; 44(Pt 3): 151-8, 2006 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16551271

ABSTRACT

In the present paper we describe the cloning and extracellular expression of the HIV-1 Nef (negative factor) protein utilizing the yeast Pichia pastoris, as well as the successful use of a low-temperature fed-batch strategy for decreasing end-product degradation by proteases. The nef gene in a pPICZalphaA vector was integrated into the genome of three different P. pastoris strains, namely X-33, GS115 and KM71H. On the basis of its efficient growth and production characteristics the wild-type strain (X-33) was found to be the best choice. The decreased end-product degradation at low temperatures was not due to lower amounts of proteases but due to their diminished activity. The yield of biomass from methanol was improved 1.44-fold utilizing the low-temperature strategy compared with the standard fermentation. Purification of histidine-tagged Nef was performed in one step using a Ni(2+)-nitrilotriacetate-Sepharose column. The purified product was characterized by SDS/PAGE, Western blotting, matrix-assisted laser-desorption ionization-time-of-flight MS, reversed-phase HPLC and N-terminal-sequence analysis.


Subject(s)
Gene Products, nef/biosynthesis , Pichia/metabolism , Temperature , Blotting, Western , Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid , Cloning, Molecular , Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel , Gene Products, nef/chemistry , Gene Products, nef/genetics , Genetic Vectors/genetics , Genetic Vectors/metabolism , Pichia/growth & development , Recombinant Proteins/biosynthesis , Recombinant Proteins/chemistry , Recombinant Proteins/genetics , Sensitivity and Specificity , Species Specificity , Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization/methods , Time Factors
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