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Matthews CB, Kuo A, Love KR, Love JC. Development of a general defined medium for
Pichia pastoris. Biotechnol Bioeng 2017; 115:103-113. [DOI: 10.1002/bit.26440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2017] [Revised: 07/26/2017] [Accepted: 09/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Catherine B. Matthews
- Department of Chemical EngineeringKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer ResearchMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeMassachusetts
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- Department of Chemical EngineeringKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer ResearchMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeMassachusetts
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- Department of Chemical EngineeringKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer ResearchMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeMassachusetts
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- Department of Chemical EngineeringKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer ResearchMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeMassachusetts
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Zahrl RJ, Peña DA, Mattanovich D, Gasser B. Systems biotechnology for protein production in Pichia pastoris. FEMS Yeast Res 2017; 17:4093073. [DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/fox068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2017] [Accepted: 08/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Zhang M, Yu XW, Xu Y, Jouhten P, Swapna GVT, Glaser RW, Hunt JF, Montelione GT, Maaheimo H, Szyperski T. 13 C metabolic flux profiling of Pichia pastoris grown in aerobic batch cultures on glucose revealed high relative anabolic use of TCA cycle and limited incorporation of provided precursors of branched-chain amino acids. FEBS J 2017; 284:3100-3113. [PMID: 28731268 DOI: 10.1111/febs.14180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2017] [Revised: 06/18/2017] [Accepted: 07/18/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
Abstract
Carbon metabolism of Crabtree-negative yeast Pichia pastoris was profiled using 13 C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to delineate regulation during exponential growth and to study the import of two precursors for branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis, α-ketoisovalerate and α-ketobutyrate. Cells were grown in aerobic batch cultures containing (a) only glucose, (b) glucose along with the precursors, or (c) glucose and Val. The study provided the following new insights. First, 13 C flux ratio analyses of central metabolism reveal an unexpectedly high anaplerotic supply of the tricarboxylic acid cycle for a Crabtree-negative yeast, and show that a substantial fraction of glucose catabolism proceeds through the pentose phosphate pathway. A comparison with previous flux ratio analyses for batch cultures of Crabtree-negative Pichia stipitis and Crabtree-positive Saccharomyces cerevisiae indicate that the overall regulation of central carbon metabolism in P. pastoris is intermediate in between P. stipitis and S. cerevisiae. Second, excess α-ketoisovalerate in the medium is not transported into the cytoplasm indicating that P. pastoris lacks a suitable transporter. In contrast, excess Val is efficiently taken up and largely fulfills demands for both Val and Leu for protein synthesis. Third, excess α-ketobutyrate is transported into the mitochondria for Ile biosynthesis. However, the import does not efficiently inhibit the synthesis of α-ketobutyrate from pyruvate indicating that P. pastoris has not been optimized evolutionarily to take full advantage of this carbon source. These findings have direct implications for preparing uniformly 2 H,13 C,15 N-labeled proteins containing protonated Ile, Val, and Leu methyl groups in P. pastoris for NMR-based structural biology. ENZYMES Acetohydroxy acid isomeroreductase (EC 1.1.1.86), branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase (BCAT, EC 2.6.1.42), fumarase (EC 4.2.1.2), malic enzyme (EC 1.1.1.39/1.1.1.40), phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (EC 4.1.1.49), pyruvate carboxylase (EC 6.4.1.1), pyruvate kinase (EC 2.7.1.40), l-serine hydroxymethyltransferase (EC 2.1.2.1), threonine aldolase (EC 4.1.2.5), threonine dehydratase (EC 4.3.1.19); transketolase (EC 2.2.1.1), transaldolase (EC 2.2.1.2).
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- Meng Zhang
- School of Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- School of Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- School of Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Espoo, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
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Ata Ö, Prielhofer R, Gasser B, Mattanovich D, Çalık P. Transcriptional engineering of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase promoter for improved heterologous protein production in Pichia pastoris. Biotechnol Bioeng 2017. [PMID: 28650069 DOI: 10.1002/bit.26363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The constitutive glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase promoter (PGAP ), which is one of the benchmark promoters of Pichia pastoris, was analyzed in terms of putative transcription factor binding sites. We constructed a synthetic library with distinct regulatory properties through deletion and duplication of these putative transcription factor binding sites and selected transcription factor (TF) genes were overexpressed or deleted to understand their roles on heterologous protein production. Using enhanced green fluorescent protein, an expression strength in a range between 0.35- and 3.10-fold of the wild-type PGAP was obtained. Another model protein, recombinant human growth hormone was produced under control of selected promoter variants and 1.6- to 2.4-fold higher product titers were reached compared to wild-type PGAP . In addition, a GAL4-like TF was found to be a crucial factor for the regulation of PGAP , and its overexpression enhanced the heterologous protein production considerably (up to 2.2-fold compared to the parental strain). The synthetic PGAP library generated enabled us to investigate the different putative transcription factors which are responsible for the regulation of PGAP under different growth conditions, ergo recombinant protein production under PGAP . Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2017;114: 2319-2327. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Özge Ata
- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara 06800, Turkey.,Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.,Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB), Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.,Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB), Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.,Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB), Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara 06800, Turkey.,Department of Chemical Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology and Metabolic Engineering Laboratory, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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Schwarzhans JP, Luttermann T, Wibberg D, Winkler A, Hübner W, Huser T, Kalinowski J, Friehs K. A Mitochondrial Autonomously Replicating Sequence from Pichia pastoris for Uniform High Level Recombinant Protein Production. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:780. [PMID: 28512458 PMCID: PMC5411459 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2017] [Accepted: 04/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Pichia pastoris is a non-conventional methylotrophic yeast that is widely used for recombinant protein production, typically by stably integrating the target gene into the genome as part of an expression cassette. However, the comparatively high clonal variability associated with this approach usually necessitates a time intense screening step in order to find strains with the desired productivity. Some of the factors causing this clonal variability can be overcome using episomal vectors containing an autonomously replicating sequence (ARS). Here, we report on the discovery, characterization, and application of a fragment of mitochondrial DNA from P. pastoris for use as an ARS. First encountered as an off-target event in an experiment aiming for genomic integration, the newly created circular plasmid named “pMito” consists of the expression cassette and a fragment of mitochondrial DNA. Multiple matches to known ARS consensus sequence motifs, but no exact match to known chromosomal ARS from P. pastoris were detected on the fragment, indicating the presence of a novel ARS element. Different variants of pMito were successfully used for transformation and their productivity characteristics were assayed. All analyzed clones displayed a highly uniform expression level, exceeding by up to fourfold that of a reference with a single copy integrated in its genome. Expressed GFP could be localized exclusively to the cytoplasm via super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, indicating that pMito is present in the nucleus. While expression levels were homogenous among pMito clones, an apparent upper limit of expression was visible that could not be explained based on the gene dosage. Further investigation is necessary to fully understand the bottle-neck hindering this and other ARS vectors in P. pastoris from reaching their full capability. Lastly, we could demonstrate that the mitochondrial ARS from P. pastoris is also suitable for episomal vector transformation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, widening the potential for biotechnological application. pMito displayed strong potential to reduce clonal variability in experiments targeting recombinant protein production. These findings also showcase the as of yet largely untapped potential of mitochondrial ARS from different yeasts for biotechnological applications.
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- Jan-Philipp Schwarzhans
- Fermentation Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld UniversityBielefeld, Germany.,Microbial Genomics and Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld UniversityBielefeld, Germany
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- Fermentation Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld UniversityBielefeld, Germany.,Microbial Genomics and Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld UniversityBielefeld, Germany
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- Genome Research of Industrial Microorganisms, CeBiTec, Bielefeld UniversityBielefeld, Germany
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- Microbial Genomics and Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld UniversityBielefeld, Germany
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- Biomolecular Photonics, Faculty of Physics, Bielefeld UniversityBielefeld, Germany
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- Biomolecular Photonics, Faculty of Physics, Bielefeld UniversityBielefeld, Germany
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- Microbial Genomics and Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld UniversityBielefeld, Germany
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- Fermentation Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld UniversityBielefeld, Germany
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Marsalek L, Gruber C, Altmann F, Aleschko M, Mattanovich D, Gasser B, Puxbaum V. Disruption of genes involved in CORVET complex leads to enhanced secretion of heterologous carboxylesterase only in protease deficient Pichia pastoris. Biotechnol J 2017; 12. [PMID: 28230321 DOI: 10.1002/biot.201600584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2016] [Revised: 02/20/2017] [Accepted: 02/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris (Komagataella spp.) is a popular microbial host for the production of recombinant proteins. Previous studies have shown that mis-sorting to the vacuole can be a bottleneck during production of recombinant secretory proteins in yeast, however, no information was available for P. pastoris. In this work the authors have therefore generated vps (vacuolar protein sorting) mutant strains disrupted in genes involved in the CORVET (class C core vacuole/endosome tethering) complex at the early stages of endosomal sorting. Both Δvps8 and Δvps21 strains contained lower extracellular amounts of heterologous carboxylesterase (CES) compared to the control strain, which could be attributed to a high proteolytic activity present in the supernatants of CORVET engineered strains due to rerouting of vacuolar proteases. Serine proteases were identified to be responsible for this proteolytic degradation by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and protease inhibitor assays. Deletion of the major cellular serine protease Prb1 in Δvps8 and Δvps21 strains did not only rescue the extracellular CES levels, but even outperformed the parental CES strain (56 and 80% higher yields, respectively). Further deletion of Ybr139W, another serine protease, did not show a further increase in secretion levels. Higher extracellular CES activity and low proteolytic activity were detected also in fed batch cultivation of Δvps21Δprb1 strains, thus confirming that modifying early steps in the vacuolar pathway has a positive impact on heterologous protein secretion.
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- Lukas Marsalek
- Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Vienna, Austria.,Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
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- Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Vienna, Austria.,Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
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- Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Vienna, Austria.,Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
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- BIOMIN Research Center, Technologiezentrum Tulln, Tulln, Austria
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- Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Vienna, Austria.,Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
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- Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Vienna, Austria.,Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
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- Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Vienna, Austria.,Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
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