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Krappinger JC, Aguilar Gomez CM, Hoenikl A, Schusterbauer V, Hatzl AM, Feichtinger J, Glieder A. dMAD7 is a promising tool for targeted gene regulation in the methylotrophic yeast Komagataella phaffii. N Biotechnol 2024; 83:110-120. [PMID: 38960022 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2024.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2024] [Revised: 06/07/2024] [Accepted: 06/30/2024] [Indexed: 07/05/2024]
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The methylotrophic yeast Komagataella phaffii is a popular host system for the pharmaceutical and biotechnological production of recombinant proteins. CRISPR-Cas9 and its derivative CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) offer a promising avenue to further enhance and exploit the full capabilities of this host. MAD7 and its catalytically inactive variant "dead" MAD7 (dMAD7) represent an interesting alternative to established CRISPR-Cas9 systems and are free to use for industrial and academic research. CRISPRi utilizing dMAD7 does not introduce double-strand breaks but only binds to the DNA to regulate gene expression. Here, we report the first use of dMAD7 in K. phaffii to regulate the expression of the enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP). A reduction of eGFP fluorescence level (up to 88 %) was achieved in random integration experiments using dMAD7 plasmids. Integration loci/events of investigated strains were assessed through whole genome sequencing. Additionally, RNA-sequencing experiments corroborated the whole genome sequencing results and showed a significantly reduced expression of eGFP in strains containing a dMAD7 plasmid, among others. Our findings conclusively demonstrate the utility of dMAD7 in K. phaffii through successfully regulating eGFP expression.
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- Julian C Krappinger
- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Pichia pastoris Host and Vector Systems, Graz, Austria; Division of Cell Biology, Histology and Embryology, Gottfried Schatz Research Center, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Pichia pastoris Host and Vector Systems, Graz, Austria; Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Pichia pastoris Host and Vector Systems, Graz, Austria; Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Pichia pastoris Host and Vector Systems, Graz, Austria; Division of Cell Biology, Histology and Embryology, Gottfried Schatz Research Center, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Pichia pastoris Host and Vector Systems, Graz, Austria; Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
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Besleaga M, Zimmermann C, Ebner K, Mach RL, Mach-Aigner AR, Geier M, Glieder A, Spadiut O, Kopp J. Bi-directionalized promoter systems allow methanol-free production of hard-to-express peroxygenases with Komagataella Phaffii. Microb Cell Fact 2024; 23:177. [PMID: 38879507 PMCID: PMC11179361 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-024-02451-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2024] [Accepted: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/19/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Heme-incorporating peroxygenases are responsible for electron transport in a multitude of organisms. Yet their application in biocatalysis is hindered due to their challenging recombinant production. Previous studies suggest Komagataella phaffi to be a suitable production host for heme-containing enzymes. In addition, co-expression of helper proteins has been shown to aid protein folding in yeast. In order to facilitate recombinant protein expression for an unspecific peroxygenase (AnoUPO), we aimed to apply a bi-directionalized expression strategy with Komagataella phaffii. RESULTS In initial screenings, co-expression of protein disulfide isomerase was found to aid the correct folding of the expressed unspecific peroxygenase in K. phaffi. A multitude of different bi-directionalized promoter combinations was screened. The clone with the most promising promoter combination was scaled up to bioreactor cultivations and compared to a mono-directional construct (expressing only the peroxygenase). The strains were screened for the target enzyme productivity in a dynamic matter, investigating both derepression and mixed feeding (methanol-glycerol) for induction. Set-points from bioreactor screenings, resulting in the highest peroxygenase productivity, for derepressed and methanol-based induction were chosen to conduct dedicated peroxygenase production runs and were analyzed with RT-qPCR. Results demonstrated that methanol-free cultivation is superior over mixed feeding in regard to cell-specific enzyme productivity. RT-qPCR analysis confirmed that mixed feeding resulted in high stress for the host cells, impeding high productivity. Moreover, the bi-directionalized construct resulted in a much higher specific enzymatic activity over the mono-directional expression system. CONCLUSIONS In this study, we demonstrate a methanol-free bioreactor production strategy for an unspecific peroxygenase, yet not shown in literature. Hence, bi-directionalized assisted protein expression in K. phaffii, cultivated under derepressed conditions, is indicated to be an effective production strategy for heme-containing oxidoreductases. This very production strategy might be opening up further opportunities for biocatalysis.
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- Mihail Besleaga
- Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Research Division Integrated Bioprocess Development, Gumpendorfer Straße 1a, Vienna, 1060, Austria
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- Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Research Division Integrated Bioprocess Development, Gumpendorfer Straße 1a, Vienna, 1060, Austria
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- bisy GmbH, Wünschendorf 292, Hofstätten an der Raab, 8200, Austria
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- Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Research Division Integrated Bioprocess Development, Gumpendorfer Straße 1a, Vienna, 1060, Austria
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- Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Research Division Integrated Bioprocess Development, Gumpendorfer Straße 1a, Vienna, 1060, Austria
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- bisy GmbH, Wünschendorf 292, Hofstätten an der Raab, 8200, Austria
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- bisy GmbH, Wünschendorf 292, Hofstätten an der Raab, 8200, Austria
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- Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Research Division Integrated Bioprocess Development, Gumpendorfer Straße 1a, Vienna, 1060, Austria
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- Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Research Division Integrated Bioprocess Development, Gumpendorfer Straße 1a, Vienna, 1060, Austria.
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Weiss F, Requena-Moreno G, Pichler C, Valero F, Glieder A, Garcia-Ortega X. Scalable protein production by Komagataella phaffii enabled by ARS plasmids and carbon source-based selection. Microb Cell Fact 2024; 23:116. [PMID: 38643119 PMCID: PMC11031860 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-024-02368-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2024] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 04/22/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Most recombinant Komagataella phaffii (Pichia pastoris) strains for protein production are generated by genomic integration of expression cassettes. The clonal variability in gene copy numbers, integration loci and consequently product titers limit the aptitude for high throughput applications in drug discovery, enzyme engineering or most comparative analyses of genetic elements such as promoters or secretion signals. Circular episomal plasmids with an autonomously replicating sequence (ARS), an alternative which would alleviate some of these limitations, are inherently unstable in K. phaffii. Permanent selection pressure, mostly enabled by antibiotic resistance or auxotrophy markers, is crucial for plasmid maintenance and hardly scalable for production. The establishment and use of extrachromosomal ARS plasmids with key genes of the glycerol metabolism (glycerol kinase 1, GUT1, and triosephosphate isomerase 1, TPI1) as selection markers was investigated to obtain a system with high transformation rates that can be directly used for scalable production processes in lab scale bioreactors. RESULTS In micro-scale deep-well plate experiments, ARS plasmids employing the Ashbya gossypii TEF1 (transcription elongation factor 1) promoter to regulate transcription of the marker gene were found to deliver high transformation efficiencies and the best performances with the reporter protein (CalB, lipase B of Candida antarctica) for both, the GUT1- and TPI1-based, marker systems. The GUT1 marker-bearing strain surpassed the reference strain with integrated expression cassette by 46% upon re-evaluation in shake flask cultures regarding CalB production, while the TPI1 system was slightly less productive compared to the control. In 5 L bioreactor methanol-free fed-batch cultivations, the episomal production system employing the GUT1 marker led to 100% increased CalB activity in the culture supernatant compared to integration construct. CONCLUSIONS For the first time, a scalable and methanol-independent expression system for recombinant protein production for K. phaffii using episomal expression vectors was demonstrated. Expression of the GUT1 selection marker gene of the new ARS plasmids was refined by employing the TEF1 promoter of A. gossypii. Additionally, the antibiotic-free marker toolbox for K. phaffii was expanded by the TPI1 marker system, which proved to be similarly suited for the use in episomal plasmids as well as integrative expression constructs for the purpose of recombinant protein production.
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- Florian Weiss
- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Pichia pastoris host and vector systems, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, A-8010, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Pichia Pastoris Host and Vector Systems, Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Pichia pastoris host and vector systems, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, A-8010, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Pichia Pastoris Host and Vector Systems, Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Pichia pastoris host and vector systems, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, A-8010, Austria.
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Pichia Pastoris Host and Vector Systems, Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
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Eskandari A, Nezhad NG, Leow TC, Rahman MBA, Oslan SN. Current achievements, strategies, obstacles, and overcoming the challenges of the protein engineering in Pichia pastoris expression system. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2023; 40:39. [PMID: 38062216 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-023-03851-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2023] [Accepted: 11/22/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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Yeasts serve as exceptional hosts in the manufacturing of functional protein engineering and possess industrial or medical utilities. Considerable focus has been directed towards yeast owing to its inherent benefits and recent advancements in this particular cellular host. The Pichia pastoris expression system is widely recognized as a prominent and widely accepted instrument in molecular biology for the purpose of generating recombinant proteins. The advantages of utilizing the P. pastoris system for protein production encompass the proper folding process occurring within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), as well as the subsequent secretion mediated by Kex2 as a signal peptidase, ultimately leading to the release of recombinant proteins into the extracellular environment of the cell. In addition, within the P. pastoris expression system, the ease of purifying recombinant protein arises from its restricted synthesis of endogenous secretory proteins. Despite its achievements, scientists often encounter persistent challenges when attempting to utilize yeast for the production of recombinant proteins. This review is dedicated to discussing the current achievements in the usage of P. pastoris as an expression host. Furthermore, it sheds light on the strategies employed in the expression system and the optimization and development of the fermentative process of this yeast. Finally, the impediments (such as identifying high expression strains, improving secretion efficiency, and decreasing hyperglycosylation) and successful resolution of certain difficulties are put forth and deliberated upon in order to assist and promote the expression of complex proteins in this prevalent recombinant host.
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- Azadeh Eskandari
- Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Enzyme Technology and X-Ray Crystallography Laboratory, VacBio 5, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
- Enzyme Technology and X-Ray Crystallography Laboratory, VacBio 5, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
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Irshad B, Lu C, Nederstigt AE, Hu P, Xue L, Lin-Cereghino J, Franz AH, Harrison JS, Lin-Cereghino GP. The effect of the bgs13 mutation on the structure of the reporter protein beta-lactoglobulin: Influence on folding and aggregation in Pichia pastoris. Protein Expr Purif 2023; 212:106355. [PMID: 37598731 PMCID: PMC10528908 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2023.106355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Revised: 08/16/2023] [Accepted: 08/17/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023]
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Pichia pastoris, a methylotrophic yeast used for recombinant protein expression, has the capability of performing many eukaryotic post-translational modifications, growing to high cell densities, and producing proteins in a cost-effective manner. However, P. pastoris's secretion properties are not always efficient, and its secretory pathway mechanisms have not been thoroughly elucidated. A previously identified mutant strain, bgs13, was found to efficiently secrete most recombinant proteins tested, raising the possibility that this bgs13 mutant is a universal super secreter. In this study, we used a reporter protein, β-lactoglobulin (b-LG), to perform structural analysis of the protein secreted from wild type and mutant bgs13 strains to investigate the secretory mechanism. Primary, secondary, and tertiary structures of b-LG were examined using Edman sequencing, circular dichroism, tryptophan fluorescence, and temperature induced aggregation analysis. Our results demonstrate that the bgs13 produced more b-LG than the wt strain and that this protein was functionally folded similar to the wt. Surprisingly, we also found that the bgs13 b-LG was more resistant to aggregation, providing another example of the superior qualities of this strain for enhanced secreted protein production.
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- Bushra Irshad
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 95211, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 95211, USA
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 95211, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 95211, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 95211, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 95211, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 95211, USA.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 95211, USA.
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Navone L, Moffitt K, Behrendorff J, Sadowski P, Hartley C, Speight R. Biosensor-guided rapid screening for improved recombinant protein secretion in Pichia pastoris. Microb Cell Fact 2023; 22:92. [PMID: 37138331 PMCID: PMC10155391 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-023-02089-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 04/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Pichia pastoris (Komagataella phaffii) is widely used for industrial production of heterologous proteins due to high secretory capabilities but selection of highly productive engineered strains remains a limiting step. Despite availability of a comprehensive molecular toolbox for construct design and gene integration, there is high clonal variability among transformants due to frequent multi-copy and off-target random integration. Therefore, functional screening of several hundreds of transformant clones is essential to identify the best protein production strains. Screening methods are commonly based on deep-well plate cultures with analysis by immunoblotting or enzyme activity assays of post-induction samples, and each heterologous protein produced may require development of bespoke assays with multiple sample processing steps. In this work, we developed a generic system based on a P. pastoris strain that uses a protein-based biosensor to identify highly productive protein secretion clones from a heterogeneous set of transformants. The biosensor uses a split green fluorescent protein where the large GFP fragment (GFP1-10) is fused to a sequence-specific protease from Tobacco Etch Virus (TEV) and is targeted to the endoplasmic reticulum. Recombinant proteins targeted for secretion are tagged with the small fragment of the split GFP (GFP11). Recombinant protein production can be measured by monitoring GFP fluorescence, which is dependent on interaction between the large and small GFP fragments. The reconstituted GFP is cleaved from the target protein by TEV protease, allowing for secretion of the untagged protein of interest and intracellular retention of the mature GFP. We demonstrate this technology with four recombinant proteins (phytase, laccase, β-casein and β-lactoglobulin) and show that the biosensor directly reports protein production levels that correlate with traditional assays. Our results confirm that the split GFP biosensor can be used for facile, generic, and rapid screening of P. pastoris clones to identify those with the highest production levels.
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- Laura Navone
- School of Biology and Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia.
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia.
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
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- Central Analytical Research Facility (CARF), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
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Eigenfeld M, Wittmann L, Kerpes R, Schwaminger S, Becker T. Quantification methods of determining brewer's and pharmaceutical yeast cell viability: accuracy and impact of nanoparticles. Anal Bioanal Chem 2023:10.1007/s00216-023-04676-w. [PMID: 37083758 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-023-04676-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2023] [Revised: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 03/28/2023] [Indexed: 04/22/2023]
Abstract
For industrial processes, a fast, precise, and reliable method of determining the physiological state of yeast cells, especially viability, is essential. However, an increasing number of processes use magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) for yeast cell manipulation, but their impact on yeast cell viability and the assay itself is unclear. This study tested the viability of Saccharomyces pastorianus ssp. carlsbergensis and Pichia pastoris by comparing traditional colourimetric, high-throughput, and growth assays with membrane fluidity. Results showed that methylene blue staining is only reliable for S. pastorianus cells with good viability, being erroneous in low viability (R2 = 0.945; [Formula: see text] = 5.78%). In comparison, the fluorescence microscopy-based assay of S. pastorianus demonstrated a coefficient of determination of R2 = 0.991 at [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text] = 2.50%) and flow cytometric viability determination using carboxyfluorescein diacetate (CFDA), enabling high-throughput analysis of representative cell numbers; R2 = 0.972 ([Formula: see text]; [Formula: see text] = 3.89%). Membrane fluidity resulted in a non-linear relationship with the viability of the yeast cells ([Formula: see text]). We also determined similar results using P. pastoris yeast. In addition, we demonstrated that MNPs affected methylene blue staining by overestimating viability. The random forest model has been shown to be a precise method for classifying nanoparticles and yeast cells and viability differentiation in flow cytometry by using CFDA. Moreover, CFDA and membrane fluidity revealed precise results for both yeasts, also in the presence of nanoparticles, enabling fast and reliable determination of viability in many experiments using MNPs for yeast cell manipulation or separation.
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- Marco Eigenfeld
- Chair of Brewing and Beverage Technology, Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Life Science, Weihenstephaner Steig 20, 85354, Freising, Germany
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- Chair of Bioseparation Engineering, Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Engineering and Design, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85748, Garching, Germany
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- Chair of Brewing and Beverage Technology, Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Life Science, Weihenstephaner Steig 20, 85354, Freising, Germany.
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- Chair of Bioseparation Engineering, Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Engineering and Design, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85748, Garching, Germany
- Division of Medicinal Chemistry, Medical University of Graz, Otto-Loewi Research Center, Neue Stiftingtalstr. 6, 8010, Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Chair of Brewing and Beverage Technology, Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Life Science, Weihenstephaner Steig 20, 85354, Freising, Germany
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Biko OD, Viljoen-Bloom M, van Zyl WH. Medium optimization for enhanced production of recombinant lignin peroxidase in Pichia pastoris. Biotechnol Lett 2023; 45:105-113. [PMID: 36400875 DOI: 10.1007/s10529-022-03321-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Revised: 10/24/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Different cultivation conditions and parameters were evaluated to improve the production and secretion of a recombinant Phanerochaete chrysosporium lipH8 gene in Komagataella phaffii (Pichia pastoris). RESULTS The recombinant lipH8 gene with its native secretion signal was successfully cloned and expressed in Komagataella phaffii (Pichia pastoris) under the control of the alcohol oxidase 1 promoter (PAOX1). The results revealed that co-feeding with sorbitol and methanol increased rLiP secretion by 5.9-fold compared to the control conditions. The addition of 1 mM FeSO4 increased LiP activity a further 6.0-fold during the induction phase. Moreover, the combination of several optimal conditions and parameters yielded an extracellular rLiP activity of 20.05 U l-1, which is more than ten-fold higher relative to standard growth conditions (BMM10 medium, pH 6 and 30 °C). CONCLUSION Extracellular activity of a recombinant LiP expressed in P. pastoris increased more than ten-fold when co-feeding sorbitol and methanol as carbon sources, together with urea as nitrogen source, FeSO4 supplementation, lower pH and lower cultivation temperature.
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- Odwa D Biko
- Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Stellenbosch, 7602, South Africa
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- Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Stellenbosch, 7602, South Africa
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- Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Stellenbosch, 7602, South Africa.
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Gätjen D, Wieczorek M, Listek M, Tomszak F, Nölle V, Hanack K, Droste M. A switchable secrete-and-capture system enables efficient selection of Pichia pastoris clones producing high yields of Fab fragments. J Immunol Methods 2022; 511:113383. [PMID: 36356896 DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2022.113383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Revised: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Pichia pastoris (syn. Komagataella phaffii) represents a commonly used expression system in the biotech industry. High clonal variation of transformants, however, typically results in a broad range of specific productivities for secreted proteins. To isolate rare clones with exceedingly high product titers, an extensive number of clones need to be screened. In contrast to high-throughput screenings of P. pastoris clones in microtiter plates, secrete-and-capture methodologies have the potential to efficiently isolate high-producer clones among millions of cells through fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). Here, we describe a novel approach for the non-covalent binding of fragment antigen-binding (Fab) proteins to the cell surface for the isolation of high-producing clones. Eight different single-chain variable fragment (scFv)-based capture matrices specific for the constant part of the Fabs were fused to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae alpha-agglutinin (SAG1) anchor protein for surface display in P. pastoris. By encoding the capture matrix on an episomal plasmid harboring inherently unstable autonomously replicating sequences (ARS), this secrete-and-capture system offers a switchable scFv display. Efficient plasmid clearance upon removal of selective pressure enabled the direct use of isolated clones for subsequent Fab production. Flow-sorted clones (n = 276) displaying high amounts of Fabs showed a significant increase in median Fab titers detected in the cell-free supernatant (CFS) compared to unsorted clones (n = 276) when cells were cultivated in microtiter plates (factor in the range of ∼21-49). Fab titers of clones exhibiting the highest product titer observed for each of the two approaches were increased by up to 8-fold for the sorted clone. Improved Fab yields of sorted cells vs. unsorted cells were confirmed in an upscaled shake flask cultivation of selected candidates (factor in the range of ∼2-3). Hence, the developed display-based selection method proved to be a valuable tool for efficient clone screening in the early stages of our bioprocess development.
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- Dominic Gätjen
- Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 68, 51429 Bergisch Gladbach, Germany; Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 68, 51429 Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 68, 51429 Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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- Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 68, 51429 Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 68, 51429 Bergisch Gladbach, Germany.
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Nekvasilová P, Kulik N, Kotik M, Petrásková L, Slámová K, Křen V, Bojarová P. Mutation Hotspot for Changing the Substrate Specificity of β- N-Acetylhexosaminidase: A Library of GlcNAcases. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:12456. [PMID: 36293310 PMCID: PMC9604439 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232012456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2022] [Revised: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2023] Open
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β-N-Acetylhexosaminidase from Talaromyces flavus (TfHex; EC 3.2.1.52) is an exo-glycosidase with dual activity for cleaving N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) and N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) units from carbohydrates. By targeting a mutation hotspot of the active site residue Glu332, we prepared a library of ten mutant variants with their substrate specificity significantly shifted towards GlcNAcase activity. Suitable mutations were identified by in silico methods. We optimized a microtiter plate screening method in the yeast Pichia pastoris expression system, which is required for the correct folding of tetrameric fungal β-N-acetylhexosaminidases. While the wild-type TfHex is promiscuous with its GalNAcase/GlcNAcase activity ratio of 1.2, the best single mutant variant Glu332His featured an 8-fold increase in selectivity toward GlcNAc compared with the wild-type. Several prepared variants, in particular Glu332Thr TfHex, had significantly stronger transglycosylation capabilities than the wild-type, affording longer chitooligomers - they behaved like transglycosidases. This study demonstrates the potential of mutagenesis to alter the substrate specificity of glycosidases.
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- Pavlína Nekvasilová
- Laboratory of Biotransformation, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, CZ-14220 Praha 4, Czech Republic
- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 5, CZ-12843 Praha 2, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 136, CZ-37333 Nové Hrady, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Biotransformation, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, CZ-14220 Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Biotransformation, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, CZ-14220 Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Biotransformation, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, CZ-14220 Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Biotransformation, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, CZ-14220 Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Biotransformation, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, CZ-14220 Praha 4, Czech Republic
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Gätjen D, Tomszak F, Dettmann JC, Droste M, Nölle V, Wieczorek M. Design of a novel switchable antibody display system in Pichia pastoris. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2022; 106:6209-6224. [PMID: 35953606 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-022-12108-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Yeast surface display (YSD) has been shown to represent a powerful tool in the field of antibody discovery and engineering as well as for selection of high producer clones. However, YSD is predominantly applied in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, whereas expression of heterologous proteins is generally favored in the non-canonical yeast Pichia pastoris (Komagataella phaffii). Establishment of surface display in P. pastoris would therefore enable antibody selection and expression in a single host. Here we describe the generation of a Pichia surface display (PSD) system based on antibody expression from episomal plasmids. By screening a diverse set of expression vectors using Design of Experiments (DoE), the effect of different genetic elements on the surface expression of antibody fragments was analyzed. Among the tested genetic elements, we found that the combination of P. pastoris formaldehyde dehydrogenase (FLD1) promoter, S. cerevisiae invertase 2 signal peptide (SUC2), and α-agglutinin cell wall protein (SAG1) including an autonomously replicating sequence of Kluyveromyces lactis (panARS) were contributing most strongly to higher display levels of three tested antibody fragments. Employing this combination resulted in the display of antibody fragments for up to 25% of cells. Despite significantly reduced expression levels in PSD compared to well-established YSD in S. cerevisiae, similar fractions of antigen binding single-chain variable fragments (scFvs) were observed (80% vs. 84%). In addition, plasmid stability assays and flow cytometric analysis demonstrated the efficient plasmid clearance of cells and associated loss of antibody fragment display after removal of selective pressure. KEY POINTS: • First report of antibody display in P. pastoris using episomal plasmids. • Identification of genetic elements conferring highest levels of antibody display. • Comparable antigen binding capacity of displayed scFvs for PSD compared to YSD.
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- Dominic Gätjen
- Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 68, 51429, Bergisch, Gladbach, Germany
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- Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 68, 51429, Bergisch, Gladbach, Germany
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- Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 68, 51429, Bergisch, Gladbach, Germany
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- Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 68, 51429, Bergisch, Gladbach, Germany
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- Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 68, 51429, Bergisch, Gladbach, Germany.
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Heterologous (Over) Expression of Human SoLute Carrier (SLC) in Yeast: A Well-Recognized Tool for Human Transporter Function/Structure Studies. LIFE (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 12:life12081206. [PMID: 36013385 PMCID: PMC9410066 DOI: 10.3390/life12081206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Revised: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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For more than 20 years, yeast has been a widely used system for the expression of human membrane transporters. Among them, more than 400 are members of the largest transporter family, the SLC superfamily. SLCs play critical roles in maintaining cellular homeostasis by transporting nutrients, ions, and waste products. Based on their involvement in drug absorption and in several human diseases, they are considered emerging therapeutic targets. Despite their critical role in human health, a large part of SLCs' is 'orphans' for substrate specificity or function. Moreover, very few data are available concerning their 3D structure. On the basis of the human health benefits of filling these knowledge gaps, an understanding of protein expression in systems that allow functional production of these proteins is essential. Among the 500 known yeast species, S. cerevisiae and P. pastoris represent those most employed for this purpose. This review aims to provide a comprehensive state-of-the-art on the attempts of human SLC expression performed by exploiting yeast. The collected data will hopefully be useful for guiding new attempts in SLCs expression with the aim to reveal new fundamental data that could lead to potential effects on human health.
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Auto-induction Screening Protocol for Ranking Clonal Libraries of Pichia pastoris MutS Strains. BIOTECHNOL BIOPROC E 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s12257-022-0006-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Zubkovs V, Wang H, Schuergers N, Weninger A, Glieder A, Cattaneo S, Boghossian AA. Bioengineering a glucose oxidase nanosensor for near-infrared continuous glucose monitoring. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2022; 4:2420-2427. [PMID: 35746900 PMCID: PMC9154020 DOI: 10.1039/d2na00092j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Accepted: 04/30/2022] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) emit photostable near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence that is conducive for optical glucose monitoring. Such SWCNT-based optical sensors often require the immobilization of proteins that can confer glucose selectivity and reactivity. In this work, we immobilize a glucose-reactive enzyme, glucose oxidase (GOx), onto SWCNTs using a N-(1-pyrenyl)maleimide (PM) crosslinker via thiol bioconjugation of engineered cysteine residues. We compare the conjugation of several glucose oxidase variants containing rationally-engineered cysteines and identify a D70C variant that shows effective bioconjugation. The bioconjugation was characterized through both absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. Furthermore, we demonstrate an application for continuous glucose monitoring in the NIR-II optical region using the bioconjugated reaction solution, which shows a reversible response to physiological concentrations of glucose. Finally, we develop a miniaturized NIR-II reader to be used for cell cultures that require continuous glucose monitoring.
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- Vitalijs Zubkovs
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland
- Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) Landquart Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland
- Institute of Biology III, University of Freiburg Freiburg Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology Graz Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology Graz Austria
- bisy GmbH Hofstaetten Austria
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- Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) Landquart Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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Kjeldsen A, Kay JE, Baxter S, McColm S, Serrano‐Amatriain C, Parker S, Robb E, Arnold SA, Gilmour C, Raper A, Robertson G, Fleming R, Smith BO, Fotheringham IG, Christie JM, Magneschi L. The fluorescent protein iLOV as a reporter for screening of high‐yield production of antimicrobial peptides in
Pichia pastoris. Microb Biotechnol 2022; 15:2126-2139. [PMID: 35312165 PMCID: PMC9249318 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.14034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2021] [Revised: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 03/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris is commonly used for the production of recombinant proteins at scale. The identification of an optimally overexpressing strain following transformation can be time and reagent consuming. Fluorescent reporters like GFP have been used to assist identification of superior producers, but their relatively big size, maturation requirements and narrow temperature range restrict their applications. Here, we introduce the use of iLOV, a flavin‐based fluorescent protein, as a fluorescent marker to identify P. pastoris high‐yielding strains easily and rapidly. The use of this fluorescent protein as a fusion partner is exemplified by the production of the antimicrobial peptide NI01, a difficult target to overexpress in its native form. iLOV fluorescence correlated well with protein expression level and copy number of the chromosomally integrated gene. An easy and simple medium‐throughput plate‐based screen directly following transformation is demonstrated for low complexity screening, while a high‐throughput method using fluorescence‐activated cell sorting (FACS) allowed for comprehensive library screening. Both codon optimization of the iLOV_NI01 fusion cassettes and different integration strategies into the P. pastoris genome were tested to produce and isolate a high‐yielding strain. Checking the genetic stability, process reproducibility and following the purification of the active native peptide are eased by visualization of and efficient cleavage from the iLOV reporter. We show that this system can be used for expression and screening of several different antimicrobial peptides recombinantly produced in P. pastoris.
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- Annemette Kjeldsen
- Ingenza Ltd Roslin Innovation Centre Charnock Bradley Building Roslin EH25 9RG UK
- Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences University of Glasgow Bower Building Glasgow G12 8QQ UK
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- Ingenza Ltd Roslin Innovation Centre Charnock Bradley Building Roslin EH25 9RG UK
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- Ingenza Ltd Roslin Innovation Centre Charnock Bradley Building Roslin EH25 9RG UK
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- Ingenza Ltd Roslin Innovation Centre Charnock Bradley Building Roslin EH25 9RG UK
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- Ingenza Ltd Roslin Innovation Centre Charnock Bradley Building Roslin EH25 9RG UK
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- Ingenza Ltd Roslin Innovation Centre Charnock Bradley Building Roslin EH25 9RG UK
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- Ingenza Ltd Roslin Innovation Centre Charnock Bradley Building Roslin EH25 9RG UK
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- Ingenza Ltd Roslin Innovation Centre Charnock Bradley Building Roslin EH25 9RG UK
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- The Roslin Institute & Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies University of Edinburgh Easter Bush Midlothian EH25 9RG UK
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- The Roslin Institute & Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies University of Edinburgh Easter Bush Midlothian EH25 9RG UK
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- The Roslin Institute & Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies University of Edinburgh Easter Bush Midlothian EH25 9RG UK
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- Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences University of Glasgow Bower Building Glasgow G12 8QQ UK
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- Ingenza Ltd Roslin Innovation Centre Charnock Bradley Building Roslin EH25 9RG UK
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- Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences University of Glasgow Bower Building Glasgow G12 8QQ UK
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- Ingenza Ltd Roslin Innovation Centre Charnock Bradley Building Roslin EH25 9RG UK
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Matsunaga R, Tsumoto K. Addition of arginine hydrochloride and proline to the culture medium enhances recombinant protein expression in Brevibacillus choshinensis: The case of RBD of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and its antibody. Protein Expr Purif 2022; 194:106075. [PMID: 35231586 PMCID: PMC8881763 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2022.106075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2022] [Revised: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Ryo Matsunaga
- Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan; Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan; The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan.
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Broadening the Biocatalytic Toolbox-Screening and Expression of New Unspecific Peroxygenases. Antioxidants (Basel) 2022; 11:antiox11020223. [PMID: 35204106 PMCID: PMC8868357 DOI: 10.3390/antiox11020223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2021] [Revised: 01/11/2022] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Unspecific peroxygenases (UPOs) catalyze the selective transfer of single oxygen atoms from peroxides to a broad range of substrates such as un-activated hydrocarbons. Since specific oxyfunctionalizations are among the most-desired reactions in synthetic chemistry, UPOs are of high industrial interest. To broaden the number of available enzymes, computational and experimental methods were combined in this study. After a comparative alignment and homology modelling, the enzymes were expressed directly in P. pastoris. Out of ten initially selected sequences, three enzymes (one from Aspergillus niger and two from Candolleomyces aberdarensis) were actively expressed. Cultivation of respective expression clones in a bioreactor led to production titers of up to 300 mg L−1. Enzymes were purified to near homogeneity and characterized regarding their specific activities and pH-optima for typical UPO substrates. This work demonstrated that directed evolution is not necessarily required to produce UPOs in P. pastoris at respective titers. The heterologous producibility of these three UPOs will expand the toolbox of available enzymes and help to advance their synthetic application.
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Fessner ND, Grimm C, Kroutil W, Glieder A. Late-Stage Functionalisation of Polycyclic ( N-Hetero-) Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Detoxifying CYP5035S7 Monooxygenase of the White-Rot Fungus Polyporus arcularius. Biomolecules 2021; 11:1708. [PMID: 34827706 PMCID: PMC8615681 DOI: 10.3390/biom11111708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2021] [Revised: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Functionalisation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their N-heteroarene analogues (NPAHs) is a tedious synthetic endeavour that requires diverse bottom-up approaches. Cytochrome P450 enzymes of white-rot fungi were shown to participate in the fungal detoxification of xenobiotics and environmental hazards via hydroxylation of PAH compounds. In this paper, the recently discovered activity of the monooxygenase CYP5035S7 towards (N)PAHs was investigated in detail, and products formed from the substrates azulene, acenaphthene, fluorene, anthracene, and phenanthrene by whole-cell biocatalysis were isolated and characterised. The observed regioselectivity of CYP5035S7 could be explained by a combination of the substrate's electron density and steric factors influencing the substrate orientation giving insight into the active-site geometry of the enzyme.
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- Nico D. Fessner
- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, NAWI Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria;
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Graz, NAWI Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria; (C.G.); (W.K.)
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Graz, NAWI Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria; (C.G.); (W.K.)
- Field of Excellence BioHealth, University of Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, NAWI Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria;
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Grosfeld EV, Bidiuk VA, Mitkevich OV, Ghazy ESMO, Kushnirov VV, Alexandrov AI. A Systematic Survey of Characteristic Features of Yeast Cell Death Triggered by External Factors. J Fungi (Basel) 2021; 7:886. [PMID: 34829175 PMCID: PMC8626022 DOI: 10.3390/jof7110886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Revised: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 10/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Cell death in response to distinct stimuli can manifest different morphological traits. It also depends on various cell death signaling pathways, extensively characterized in higher eukaryotes but less so in microorganisms. The study of cell death in yeast, and specifically Saccharomyces cerevisiae, can potentially be productive for understanding cell death, since numerous killing stimuli have been characterized for this organism. Here, we systematized the literature on external treatments that kill yeast, and which contains at least minimal data on cell death mechanisms. Data from 707 papers from the 7000 obtained using keyword searches were used to create a reference table for filtering types of cell death according to commonly assayed parameters. This table provides a resource for orientation within the literature; however, it also highlights that the common view of similarity between non-necrotic death in yeast and apoptosis in mammals has not provided sufficient progress to create a clear classification of cell death types. Differences in experimental setups also prevent direct comparison between different stimuli. Thus, side-by-side comparisons of various cell death-inducing stimuli under comparable conditions using existing and novel markers that can differentiate between types of cell death seem like a promising direction for future studies.
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- Erika V. Grosfeld
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutskiy per, Dolgoprudny, 141700 Moscow, Russia;
- Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the RAS, Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (V.A.B.); (O.V.M.); (E.S.M.O.G.); (V.V.K.)
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- Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the RAS, Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (V.A.B.); (O.V.M.); (E.S.M.O.G.); (V.V.K.)
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- Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the RAS, Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (V.A.B.); (O.V.M.); (E.S.M.O.G.); (V.V.K.)
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- Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the RAS, Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (V.A.B.); (O.V.M.); (E.S.M.O.G.); (V.V.K.)
- Institute of Biochemical Technology and Nanotechnology, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN), 6 Miklukho-Maklaya Street, 117198 Moscow, Russia
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tanta University, Tanta 31111, Egypt
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- Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the RAS, Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (V.A.B.); (O.V.M.); (E.S.M.O.G.); (V.V.K.)
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- Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the RAS, Bach Institute of Biochemistry, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (V.A.B.); (O.V.M.); (E.S.M.O.G.); (V.V.K.)
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Fessner ND, Nelson DR, Glieder A. Evolution and enrichment of CYP5035 in Polyporales: functionality of an understudied P450 family. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2021; 105:6779-6792. [PMID: 34459954 PMCID: PMC8426240 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-021-11444-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2021] [Revised: 05/29/2021] [Accepted: 07/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Abstract Bioprospecting for innovative basidiomycete cytochrome P450 enzymes (P450s) is highly desirable due to the fungi’s enormous enzymatic repertoire and outstanding ability to degrade lignin and detoxify various xenobiotics. While fungal metagenomics is progressing rapidly, the biocatalytic potential of the majority of these annotated P450 sequences usually remains concealed, although functional profiling identified several P450 families with versatile substrate scopes towards various natural products. Functional knowledge about the CYP5035 family, for example, is largely insufficient. In this study, the families of the putative P450 sequences of the four white-rot fungi Polyporus arcularius, Polyporus brumalis, Polyporus squamosus and Lentinus tigrinus were assigned, and the CYPomes revealed an unusual enrichment of CYP5035, CYP5136 and CYP5150. By computational analysis of the phylogeny of the former two P450 families, the evolution of their enrichment could be traced back to the Ganoderma macrofungus, indicating their evolutionary benefit. In order to address the knowledge gap on CYP5035 functionality, a representative subgroup of this P450 family of P. arcularius was expressed and screened against a test set of substrates. Thereby, the multifunctional enzyme CYP5035S7 converting several plant natural product classes was discovered. Aligning CYP5035S7 to 102,000 putative P450 sequences of 36 fungal species from Joint Genome Institute-provided genomes located hundreds of further CYP5035 family members, which subfamilies were classified if possible. Exemplified by these specific enzyme analyses, this study gives valuable hints for future bioprospecting of such xenobiotic-detoxifying P450s and for the identification of their biocatalytic potential. Graphical abstract ![]()
Key points • The P450 families CYP5035 and CYP5136 are unusually enriched in P. arcularius. • Functional screening shows CYP5035 assisting in the fungal detoxification mechanism. • Some Polyporales encompass an unusually large repertoire of detoxification P450s. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00253-021-11444-2.
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- Nico D Fessner
- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, NAWI Graz, Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, 38163, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, NAWI Graz, Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria.
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Rieder L, Ebner K, Glieder A, Sørlie M. Novel molecular biological tools for the efficient expression of fungal lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases in Pichia pastoris. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2021; 14:122. [PMID: 34044872 PMCID: PMC8161572 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-021-01971-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2021] [Accepted: 05/13/2021] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are attracting large attention due their ability to degrade recalcitrant polysaccharides in biomass conversion and to perform powerful redox chemistry. RESULTS We have established a universal Pichia pastoris platform for the expression of fungal LPMOs using state-of-the-art recombination cloning and modern molecular biological tools to achieve high yields from shake-flask cultivation and simple tag-less single-step purification. Yields are very favorable with up to 42 mg per liter medium for four different LPMOs spanning three different families. Moreover, we report for the first time of a yeast-originating signal peptide from the dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide-protein glycosyltransferase subunit 1 (OST1) form S. cerevisiae efficiently secreting and successfully processes the N-terminus of LPMOs yielding in fully functional enzymes. CONCLUSION The work demonstrates that the industrially most relevant expression host P. pastoris can be used to express fungal LPMOs from different families in high yields and inherent purity. The presented protocols are standardized and require little equipment with an additional advantage with short cultivation periods.
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- Lukas Rieder
- Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Food Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Ås, Norway
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, Graz, Austria
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Food Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Ås, Norway.
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Geiss A, Reichhart TMB, Pejker B, Plattner E, Herzog PL, Schulz C, Ludwig R, Felice AKG, Haltrich D. Engineering the Turnover Stability of Cellobiose Dehydrogenase toward Long-Term Bioelectronic Applications. ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING 2021; 9:7086-7100. [PMID: 34306835 PMCID: PMC8296668 DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c01165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2021] [Revised: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
Abstract
Cellobiose dehydrogenase (CDH) is an attractive oxidoreductase for bioelectrochemical applications. Its two-domain structure allows the flavoheme enzyme to establish direct electron transfer to biosensor and biofuel cell electrodes. Yet, the application of CDH in these devices is impeded by its limited stability under turnover conditions. In this work, we aimed to improve the turnover stability of CDH by semirational, high-throughput enzyme engineering. We screened 13 736 colonies in a 96-well plate setup for improved turnover stability and selected 11 improved variants. Measures were taken to increase the reproducibility and robustness of the screening setup, and the statistical evaluation demonstrates the validity of the procedure. The selected CDH variants were expressed in shaking flasks and characterized in detail by biochemical and electrochemical methods. Two mechanisms contributing to turnover stability were found: (i) replacement of methionine side chains prone to oxidative damage and (ii) the reduction of oxygen reactivity achieved by an improved balance of the individual reaction rates in the two CDH domains. The engineered CDH variants hold promise for the application in continuous biosensors or biofuel cells, while the deduced mechanistic insights serve as a basis for future enzyme engineering approaches addressing the turnover stability of oxidoreductases in general.
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- Andreas
F. Geiss
- Biocatalysis
and Biosensing Laboratory, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU − University of Natural Resources and
Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Biocatalysis
and Biosensing Laboratory, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU − University of Natural Resources and
Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
- DirectSens
Biosensors GmbH, Am Rosenbühel
38, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Biocatalysis
and Biosensing Laboratory, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU − University of Natural Resources and
Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- DirectSens
Biosensors GmbH, Am Rosenbühel
38, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- DirectSens
Biosensors GmbH, Am Rosenbühel
38, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- DirectSens
Biosensors GmbH, Am Rosenbühel
38, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Biocatalysis
and Biosensing Laboratory, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU − University of Natural Resources and
Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
- DirectSens
Biosensors GmbH, Am Rosenbühel
38, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- DirectSens
Biosensors GmbH, Am Rosenbühel
38, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
- E-mail: . Telephone: +436505000167
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- Biocatalysis
and Biosensing Laboratory, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU − University of Natural Resources and
Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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Schempp FM, Strobel I, Etschmann MMW, Bierwirth E, Panten J, Schewe H, Schrader J, Buchhaupt M. Identification of Fungal Limonene-3-Hydroxylase for Biotechnological Menthol Production. Appl Environ Microbiol 2021; 87:e02873-20. [PMID: 33637576 PMCID: PMC8117750 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02873-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 02/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
More than 30,000 tons of menthol are produced every year as a flavor and fragrance compound or as a medical component. So far, only extraction from plant material and chemical synthesis are possible. An alternative approach for menthol production could be a biotechnological-chemical process with ideally only two conversion steps, starting from (+)-limonene, which is a side product of the citrus processing industry. The first step requires a limonene-3-hydroxylase (L3H) activity that specifically catalyzes hydroxylation of limonene at carbon atom 3. Several protein engineering strategies have already attempted to create limonene-3-hydroxylases from bacterial cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (CYPs, or P450s), which can be efficiently expressed in bacterial hosts. However, their regiospecificity is rather low compared to that of the highly selective L3H enzymes from the biosynthetic pathway for menthol in Mentha species. The only naturally occurring limonene-3-hydroxylase activity identified in microorganisms so far was reported for a strain of the black yeast-like fungus Hormonema sp. in South Africa. We have discovered additional fungi that can catalyze the intended reaction and identified potential CYP-encoding genes within the genome sequence of one of the strains. Using heterologous gene expression and biotransformation experiments in yeasts, we were able to identify limonene-3-hydroxylases from Aureobasidium pullulans and Hormonema carpetanum Further characterization of the A. pullulans enzyme demonstrated its high stereospecificity and regioselectivity, its potential for limonene-based menthol production, and its additional ability to convert α- and β-pinene to verbenol and pinocarveol, respectively.IMPORTANCE (-)-Menthol is an important flavor and fragrance compound and furthermore has medicinal uses. To realize a two-step synthesis starting from renewable (+)-limonene, a regioselective limonene-3-hydroxylase enzyme is necessary. We identified enzymes from two different fungi which catalyze this hydroxylation reaction and represent an important module for the development of a biotechnological process for (-)-menthol production from renewable (+)-limonene.
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- Florence M Schempp
- DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut, Industrial Biotechnology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Faculty Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut, Industrial Biotechnology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut, Industrial Biotechnology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Faculty Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Symrise AG, S&C Innovations Technology Scouting, Holzminden, Germany
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- DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut, Industrial Biotechnology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut, Industrial Biotechnology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut, Industrial Biotechnology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Garrigós-Martínez J, Weninger A, Montesinos-Seguí JL, Schmid C, Valero F, Rinnofner C, Glieder A, Garcia-Ortega X. Scalable production and application of Pichia pastoris whole cell catalysts expressing human cytochrome P450 2C9. Microb Cell Fact 2021; 20:90. [PMID: 33902608 PMCID: PMC8074423 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-021-01577-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Currently, the numerous and versatile applications in pharmaceutical and chemical industry make the recombinant production of cytochrome P450 enzymes (CYPs) of great biotechnological interest. Accelerating the drug development process by simple, quick and scalable access of human drug metabolites is key for efficient and targeted drug development in response to new and sometimes unexpected medical challenges and needs. However, due its biochemical complexity, scalable human CYP (hCYP) production and their application in preparative biotransformations was still in its infancy. RESULTS A scalable bioprocess for fine-tuned co-expression of hCYP2C9 and its essential complementary human cytochrome P450 reductase (hCPR) in the yeast Pichia pastoris (Komagataella phaffii) is presented. High-throughput screening (HTS) of a transformant library employing a set of diverse bidirectional expression systems with different regulation patterns and a fluorimetric assay was used in order to fine-tune hCYP2C9 and hCPR co-expression, and to identify best expressing clonal variants. The bioprocess development for scalable and reliable whole cell biocatalyst production in bioreactors was carried out based on rational optimization criteria. Among the different alternatives studied, a glycerol carbon-limiting strategy at high µ showed highest production rates, while methanol co-addition together with a decrease of µ provided the best results in terms of product to biomass yield and whole cell activity. By implementing the mentioned strategies, up to threefold increases in terms of production rates and/or yield could be achieved in comparison with initial tests. Finally, the performance of the whole cell catalysts was demonstrated successfully in biotransformation using ibuprofen as substrate, demonstrating the expected high selectivity of the human enzyme catalyst for 3'hydroxyibuprofen. CONCLUSIONS For the first time a scalable bioprocess for the production of hCYP2C9 whole cell catalysts was successfully designed and implemented in bioreactor cultures, and as well, further tested in a preparative-scale biotransformation of interest. The catalyst engineering procedure demonstrated the efficiency of the employment of a set of differently regulated bidirectional promoters to identify transformants with most effective membrane-bound hCYP/hCPR co-expression ratios and implies to become a model case for the generation of other P. pastoris based catalysts relying on co-expressed enzymes such as other P450 catalysts or enzymes relying on co-expressed enzymes for co-factor regeneration.
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- Javier Garrigós-Martínez
- Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Spain
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Spain
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Spain
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- Bisy GmbH, Wuenschendorf 292, 8200, Hofstaetten/Raab, Austria
- Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB), Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria.
- Bisy GmbH, Wuenschendorf 292, 8200, Hofstaetten/Raab, Austria.
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- Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Spain
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Rosenbergová Z, Kántorová K, Šimkovič M, Breier A, Rebroš M. Optimisation of Recombinant Myrosinase Production in Pichia pastoris. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22073677. [PMID: 33916093 PMCID: PMC8037066 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22073677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Revised: 03/26/2021] [Accepted: 03/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Myrosinase is a plant defence enzyme catalysing the hydrolysis of glucosinolates, a group of plant secondary metabolites, to a range of volatile compounds. One of the products, isothiocyanates, proved to have neuroprotective and chemo-preventive properties, making myrosinase a pharmaceutically interesting enzyme. In this work, extracellular expression of TGG1 myrosinase from Arabidopsis thaliana in the Pichia pastoris KM71H (MutS) strain was upscaled to a 3 L laboratory fermenter for the first time. Fermentation conditions (temperature and pH) were optimised, which resulted in a threefold increase in myrosinase productivity compared to unoptimised fermentation conditions. Dry cell weight increased 1.5-fold, reaching 100.5 g/L without additional glycerol feeding. Overall, a specific productivity of 4.1 U/Lmedium/h was achieved, which was 102.5-fold higher compared to flask cultivations.
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- Zuzana Rosenbergová
- Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia; (Z.R.); (K.K.)
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia; (Z.R.); (K.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia; (M.Š.); (A.B.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia; (M.Š.); (A.B.)
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia; (Z.R.); (K.K.)
- Correspondence:
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Navone L, Vogl T, Luangthongkam P, Blinco JA, Luna-Flores CH, Chen X, von Hellens J, Mahler S, Speight R. Disulfide bond engineering of AppA phytase for increased thermostability requires co-expression of protein disulfide isomerase in Pichia pastoris. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2021; 14:80. [PMID: 33789740 PMCID: PMC8010977 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-021-01936-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/20/2021] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Phytases are widely used commercially as dietary supplements for swine and poultry to increase the digestibility of phytic acid. Enzyme development has focused on increasing thermostability to withstand the high temperatures during industrial steam pelleting. Increasing thermostability often reduces activity at gut temperatures and there remains a demand for improved phyases for a growing market. RESULTS In this work, we present a thermostable variant of the E. coli AppA phytase, ApV1, that contains an extra non-consecutive disulfide bond. Detailed biochemical characterisation of ApV1 showed similar activity to the wild type, with no statistical differences in kcat and KM for phytic acid or in the pH and temperature activity optima. Yet, it retained approximately 50% activity after incubations for 20 min at 65, 75 and 85 °C compared to almost full inactivation of the wild-type enzyme. Production of ApV1 in Pichia pastoris (Komagataella phaffi) was much lower than the wild-type enzyme due to the presence of the extra non-consecutive disulfide bond. Production bottlenecks were explored using bidirectional promoters for co-expression of folding chaperones. Co-expression of protein disulfide bond isomerase (Pdi) increased production of ApV1 by ~ 12-fold compared to expression without this folding catalyst and restored yields to similar levels seen with the wild-type enzyme. CONCLUSIONS Overall, the results show that protein engineering for enhanced enzymatic properties like thermostability may result in folding complexity and decreased production in microbial systems. Hence parallel development of improved production strains is imperative to achieve the desirable levels of recombinant protein for industrial processes.
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- Laura Navone
- Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
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- Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Bioproton Pty Ltd, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- ARC Training Centre for Biopharmaceutical Innovation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Bioprocess performance analysis of novel methanol-independent promoters for recombinant protein production with Pichia pastoris. Microb Cell Fact 2021; 20:74. [PMID: 33757505 PMCID: PMC7986505 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-021-01564-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 03/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background Pichia pastoris is a powerful and broadly used host for recombinant protein production (RPP), where past bioprocess performance has often been directed with the methanol regulated AOX1 promoter (PAOX1), and the constitutive GAP promoter (PGAP). Since promoters play a crucial role in an expression system and the bioprocess efficiency, innovative alternatives are constantly developed and implemented. Here, a thorough comparative kinetic characterization of two expression systems based on the commercial PDF and UPP promoters (PPDF, PUPP) was first conducted in chemostat cultures. Most promising conditions were subsequently tested in fed-batch cultivations. These new alternatives were compared with the classical strong promoter PGAP, using the Candida antarctica lipase B (CalB) as model protein for expression system performance. Results Both the PPDF and PUPP-based expression systems outperformed similar PGAP-based expression in chemostat cultivations, reaching ninefold higher specific production rates (qp). CALB transcription levels were drastically higher when employing the novel expression systems. This higher expression was also correlated with a marked upregulation of unfolded protein response (UPR) related genes, likely from an increased protein burden in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Based on the chemostat results obtained, best culture strategies for both PPDF and PUPP expression systems were also successfully implemented in 15 L fed-batch cultivations where qp and product to biomass yield (YP/X*) values were similar than those obtained in chemostat cultivations. Conclusions As an outcome of the macrokinetic characterization presented, the novel PPDF and PUPP were observed to offer much higher efficiency for CalB production than the widely used PGAP-based methanol-free alternative. Thus, both systems arise as highly productive alternatives for P. pastoris-based RPP bioprocesses. Furthermore, the different expression regulation patterns observed indicate the level of gene expression can be adjusted, or tuned, which is interesting when using Pichia pastoris as a cell factory for different products of interest. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12934-021-01564-9.
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Messenlehner J, Hetman M, Tripp A, Wallner S, Macheroux P, Gruber K, Daniel B. The catalytic machinery of the FAD-dependent AtBBE-like protein 15 for alcohol oxidation: Y193 and Y479 form a catalytic base, Q438 and R292 an alkoxide binding site. Arch Biochem Biophys 2021; 700:108766. [PMID: 33485849 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2021.108766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2020] [Revised: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
Abstract
Monolignol oxidoreductases are members of the berberine bridge enzyme-like (BBE-like) protein family (pfam 08031) that oxidize monolignols to the corresponding aldehydes. They are FAD-dependent enzymes that exhibit the para-cresolmethylhydroxylase-topology, also known as vanillyl oxidase-topology. Recently, we have reported the structural and biochemical characterization of two monolignol oxidoreductases from Arabidopsis thaliana, AtBBE13 and AtBBE15. Now, we have conducted a comprehensive site directed mutagenesis study for AtBBE15, to expand our understanding of the catalytic mechanism of this enzyme class. Based on the kinetic properties of active site variants and molecular dynamics simulations, we propose a refined, structure-guided reaction mechanism for the family of monolignol oxidoreductases. Here, we propose that this reaction is facilitated stepwise by the deprotonation of the allylic alcohol and a subsequent hydride transfer from the Cα-atom of the alkoxide to the flavin. We describe an excessive hydrogen bond network that enables the catalytic mechanism of the enzyme. Within this network Tyr479 and Tyr193 act concertedly as active catalytic bases to facilitate the proton abstraction. Lys436 is indirectly involved in the deprotonation as this residue determines the position of Tyr193 via a cation-π interaction. The enzyme forms a hydrophilic cavity to accommodate the alkoxide intermediate and to stabilize the transition state from the alkoxide to the aldehyde. By means of molecular dynamics simulations, we have identified two different and distinct binding modes for the substrate in the alcohol and alkoxide state. The alcohol interacts with Tyr193 and Tyr479 while Arg292, Gln438 and Tyr193 form an alkoxide binding site to accommodate this intermediate. The pH-dependency of the activity of the active site variants revealed that the integrity of the alkoxide binding site is also crucial for the fine tuning of the pKa of Tyr193 and Tyr479. Sequence alignments showed that key residues for the mechanism are highly conserved, indicating that our proposed mechanism is not only relevant for AtBBE15 but for the majority of BBE-like proteins.
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- Julia Messenlehner
- Graz University of Technology, NAWI Graz, Institute of Biochemistry, Graz, Austria
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- University of Graz, NAWI Graz, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Graz, Austria; Acib-Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology, Krenngasse 37, Graz, Austria
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- Graz University of Technology, NAWI Graz, Institute of Biochemistry, Graz, Austria
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- Graz University of Technology, NAWI Graz, Institute of Biochemistry, Graz, Austria
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- Graz University of Technology, NAWI Graz, Institute of Biochemistry, Graz, Austria; BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria
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- University of Graz, NAWI Graz, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Graz, Austria; BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria; Field of Excellence BioHealth - University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Graz University of Technology, NAWI Graz, Institute of Biochemistry, Graz, Austria; University of Graz, NAWI Graz, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Graz, Austria; Acib-Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology, Krenngasse 37, Graz, Austria.
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Felice AKG, Schuster C, Kadek A, Filandr F, Laurent CVFP, Scheiblbrandner S, Schwaiger L, Schachinger F, Kracher D, Sygmund C, Man P, Halada P, Oostenbrink C, Ludwig R. Chimeric Cellobiose Dehydrogenases Reveal the Function of Cytochrome Domain Mobility for the Electron Transfer to Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenase. ACS Catal 2021; 11:517-532. [PMID: 33489432 PMCID: PMC7818652 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c05294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2020] [Revised: 12/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The natural function of cellobiose
dehydrogenase (CDH) to donate
electrons from its catalytic flavodehydrogenase (DH) domain via its
cytochrome (CYT) domain to lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase (LPMO)
is an example of a highly efficient extracellular electron transfer
chain. To investigate the function of the CYT domain movement in the
two occurring electron transfer steps, two CDHs from the ascomycete Neurospora crassa (NcCDHIIA and NcCDHIIB) and five chimeric CDH enzymes created by domain
swapping were studied in combination with the fungus’ own LPMOs
(NcLPMO9C and NcLPMO9F). Kinetic
and electrochemical methods and hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry
were used to study the domain movement, interaction, and electron
transfer kinetics. Molecular docking provided insights into the protein–protein
interface, the orientation of domains, and binding energies. We find
that the first, interdomain electron transfer step from the catalytic
site in the DH domain to the CYT domain depends on steric and electrostatic
interface complementarity and the length of the protein linker between
both domains but not on the redox potential difference between the
FAD and heme b cofactors. After CYT reduction, a
conformational change of CDH from its closed state to an open state
allows the second, interprotein electron transfer (IPET) step from
CYT to LPMO to occur by direct interaction of the b-type heme and the type-2 copper center. Chimeric CDH enzymes favor
the open state and achieve higher IPET rates by exposing the heme b cofactor to LPMO. The IPET, which is influenced by interface
complementarity and the heme b redox potential, is
very efficient with bimolecular rates between 2.9 × 105 and 1.1 × 106 M–1 s–1.
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- Alfons K. G. Felice
- Biocatalysis and Biosensing Research Group, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU−University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Biocatalysis and Biosensing Research Group, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU−University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- BIOCEV−Institute of Microbiology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prumyslova 595, 252 50 Vestec, Czech Republic
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 8, 128 43 Prague, Czech Republic
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- BIOCEV−Institute of Microbiology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prumyslova 595, 252 50 Vestec, Czech Republic
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 8, 128 43 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Biocatalysis and Biosensing Research Group, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU−University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
- Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, BOKU−University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Biocatalysis and Biosensing Research Group, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU−University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Biocatalysis and Biosensing Research Group, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU−University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Biocatalysis and Biosensing Research Group, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU−University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Biocatalysis and Biosensing Research Group, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU−University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Biocatalysis and Biosensing Research Group, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU−University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- BIOCEV−Institute of Microbiology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prumyslova 595, 252 50 Vestec, Czech Republic
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 8, 128 43 Prague, Czech Republic
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- BIOCEV−Institute of Microbiology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prumyslova 595, 252 50 Vestec, Czech Republic
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- Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, BOKU−University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Biocatalysis and Biosensing Research Group, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU−University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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Navone L, Vogl T, Luangthongkam P, Blinco JA, Luna-Flores C, Chen X, von Hellens J, Speight R. Synergistic optimisation of expression, folding, and secretion improves E. coli AppA phytase production in Pichia pastoris. Microb Cell Fact 2021; 20:8. [PMID: 33494776 PMCID: PMC7836175 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-020-01499-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Accepted: 12/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Pichia pastoris (Komagataella phaffii) is an important platform for heterologous protein production due to its growth to high cell density and outstanding secretory capabilities. Recent developments in synthetic biology have extended the toolbox for genetic engineering of P. pastoris to improve production strains. Yet, overloading the folding and secretion capacity of the cell by over-expression of recombinant proteins is still an issue and rational design of strains is critical to achieve cost-effective industrial manufacture. Several enzymes are commercially produced in P. pastoris, with phytases being one of the biggest on the global market. Phytases are ubiquitously used as a dietary supplement for swine and poultry to increase digestibility of phytic acid, the main form of phosphorous storage in grains. RESULTS Potential bottlenecks for expression of E. coli AppA phytase in P. pastoris were explored by applying bidirectional promoters (BDPs) to express AppA together with folding chaperones, disulfide bond isomerases, trafficking proteins and a cytosolic redox metabolism protein. Additionally, transcriptional studies were used to provide insights into the expression profile of BDPs. A flavoprotein encoded by ERV2 that has not been characterised in P. pastoris was used to improve the expression of the phytase, indicating its role as an alternative pathway to ERO1. Subsequent AppA production increased by 2.90-fold compared to the expression from the state of the AOX1 promoter. DISCUSSION The microbial production of important industrial enzymes in recombinant systems can be improved by applying newly available molecular tools. Overall, the work presented here on the optimisation of phytase production in P. pastoris contributes to the improved understanding of recombinant protein folding and secretion in this important yeast microbial production host.
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- Laura Navone
- Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
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- Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Bioproton Pty Ltd, Acacia Ridge, QLD, Australia
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- Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Horvat M, Larch T, Rudroff F, Winkler M. Amino Benzamidoxime (ABAO)‐Based Assay to Identify Efficient Aldehyde‐Producing
Pichia pastoris
Clones. Adv Synth Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/adsc.202000558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry TU Wien Getreidemarkt 9/OC-163 1060 Vienna Austria
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- acib GmbH Krenngasse 37 8010 Graz Austria
- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology TU Graz Petersgasse 14 8010 Graz Austria
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Le HHM, Vang D, Amer N, Vue T, Yee C, Kaou H, Harrison JS, Xiao N, Lin-Cereghino J, Lin-Cereghino GP, Thor D. Enhancement of cell proliferation and motility of mammalian cells grown in co-culture with Pichia pastoris expressing recombinant human FGF-2. Protein Expr Purif 2020; 176:105724. [PMID: 32846209 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2020.105724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2020] [Revised: 07/28/2020] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Many studies examining the biological function of recombinant proteins and their effects on the physiology of mammalian cells stipulate that the proteins be purified before being used as therapeutic agents. In this study, we explored the possibility of using unpurified recombinant proteins to treat mammalian cells. The recombinant protein was used directly from the expression source and the biological function was compared to purified commercially available, equivalent protein. The model for this purpose was recombinant FGF-2, expressed by Pichia pastoris, which was used to treat the murine fibroblast cell line, NIH/3T3. We generated a P. pastoris strain (yHL11) that constitutively secreted a biologically active recombinant FGF-2 protein containing an N-terminal c-myc epitope (Myc-FGF-2). Myc-FGF-2 was then used without purification either a) in the form of conditioned mammalian cell culture medium or b) during co-cultures of yHL11 with NIH/3T3 to induce higher proliferation and motility of NIH/3T3 cells. The effects of Myc-FGF-2 on cell physiology were comparable to commercially available FGF-2. To our knowledge, this is the first time the physiology of cultured mammalian cells had been successfully altered with a recombinant protein secreted by P. pastoris while the two species shared the same medium and culture conditions. Our data demonstrated the biological activity of unpurified recombinant FGF-2 on NIH/3T3 cells and provided a foundation for directly using unpurified recombinant proteins expressed by P. pastoris with mammalian cells, potentially as wound-healing therapeutics.
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- Henry Hieu M Le
- Department of Biological Sciences, College of the Pacific, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of the Pacific, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of the Pacific, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of the Pacific, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of the Pacific, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, College of the Pacific, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of the Pacific, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of the Pacific, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Bormann S, Burek BO, Ulber R, Holtmann D. Immobilization of unspecific peroxygenase expressed in Pichia pastoris by metal affinity binding. MOLECULAR CATALYSIS 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mcat.2020.110999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Kaushik N, Lamminmäki U, Khanna N, Batra G. Enhanced cell density cultivation and rapid expression-screening of recombinant Pichia pastoris clones in microscale. Sci Rep 2020; 10:7458. [PMID: 32366873 PMCID: PMC7198582 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-63995-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Cultivation of yeast Pichia pastoris in the microtiter plate, for optimisation of culture conditions, and expression screening of transformants has gained significance in recent years. However, in the microtiter plate, it has been challenging to attain cell densities similar to well-aerated shake-flask culture, due to the poor mixing resulting in oxygen limitation. To solve this problem, we investigated the influence of multiple cultivation parameters on P. pastoris cell growth, including the architecture of 96-deepwell plate (96-DWP), shaking throw diameter, shaking frequency, culture volume/well, and media composition. In the optimised conditions, a cell density of OD600 ~50 (dry cell weight ~13 g/L) with >99% cell viability was achieved in the casamino acids supplemented buffered-minimal-media in 300 to 1000 μl culture volume/well. We have devised a simplified method for coating of the culture supernatant on the polystyrene surface for immunoassay. Clones for secretory expression of envelope domain III of dengue virus serotype-1 under the control of inducible and constitutive promoter were screened using the developed method. Described microscale cultivation strategy can be used for rapid high-throughput screening of P. pastoris clones, media optimization, and high-throughput recombinant protein production. The knowledge gained through this work may also be applied, to other suspension cultures, with some modifications.
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- Neha Kaushik
- Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, Haryana, India.,School of Life Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal, 576104, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Biochemistry/Biotechnology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Recombinant Gene Products Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India
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- Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, Haryana, India.
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Vogl T, Fischer JE, Hyden P, Wasmayer R, Sturmberger L, Glieder A. Orthologous promoters from related methylotrophic yeasts surpass expression of endogenous promoters of Pichia pastoris. AMB Express 2020; 10:38. [PMID: 32100120 PMCID: PMC7042429 DOI: 10.1186/s13568-020-00972-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Accepted: 02/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Methylotrophic yeasts such as Komagataella phaffii (syn. Pichia pastoris, Pp), Hansenula polymorpha (Hp), Candida boidinii (Cb) and Pichia methanolica (Pm) are widely used protein production platforms. Typically, strong, tightly regulated promoters of genes coding for their methanol utilization (MUT) pathways are used to drive heterologous gene expression. Despite highly similar open reading frames in the MUT pathways of the four yeasts, the regulation of the respective promoters varies strongly between species. While most endogenous Pp MUT promoters remain tightly repressed after depletion of a repressing carbon, Hp, Cb and Pm MUT promoters are derepressed to up to 70% of methanol induced levels, enabling methanol free production processes in their respective host background. Here, we have tested a series of orthologous promoters from Hp, Cb and Pm in Pp. Unexpectedly, when induced with methanol, the promoter of the HpMOX gene reached very similar expression levels as the strong methanol, inducible, and most frequently used promoter of the Pp alcohol oxidase 1 gene (PPpAOX1). The HpFMD promoter even surpassed PPpAOX1 up to three-fold, when induced with methanol, and reached under methanol-free/derepressed conditions similar expression as the methanol induced PPpAOX1. These results demonstrate that orthologous promoters from related yeast species can give access to otherwise unobtainable regulatory profiles and may even considerably surpass endogenous promoters in P. pastoris.
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Role of BGS13 in the Secretory Mechanism of Pichia pastoris. Appl Environ Microbiol 2019; 85:AEM.01615-19. [PMID: 31585990 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01615-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2019] [Accepted: 09/22/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris has been utilized for heterologous protein expression for over 30 years. Because P. pastoris secretes few of its own proteins, the exported recombinant protein is the major polypeptide in the extracellular medium, making purification relatively easy. Unfortunately, some recombinant proteins intended for secretion are retained within the cell. A mutant strain isolated in our laboratory, containing a disruption of the BGS13 gene, displayed elevated levels of secretion for a variety of reporter proteins. The Bgs13 peptide (Bgs13p) is similar to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein kinase C 1 protein (Pkc1p), but its specific mode of action is currently unclear. To illuminate differences in the secretion mechanism between the wild-type (wt) strain and the bgs13 strain, we determined that the disrupted bgs13 gene expressed a truncated protein that had reduced protein kinase C activity and a different location in the cell, compared to the wt protein. Because the Pkc1p of baker's yeast plays a significant role in cell wall integrity, we investigated the sensitivity of the mutant strain's cell wall to growth antagonists and extraction by dithiothreitol, determining that the bgs13 strain cell wall suffered from inherent structural problems although its porosity was normal. A proteomic investigation of the bgs13 strain secretome and cell wall-extracted peptides demonstrated that, compared to its wt parent, the bgs13 strain also displayed increased release of an array of normally secreted, endogenous proteins, as well as endoplasmic reticulum-resident chaperone proteins, suggesting that Bgs13p helps regulate the unfolded protein response and protein sorting on a global scale.IMPORTANCE The yeast Pichia pastoris is used as a host system for the expression of recombinant proteins. Many of these products, including antibodies, vaccine antigens, and therapeutic proteins such as insulin, are currently on the market or in late stages of development. However, one major weakness is that sometimes these proteins are not secreted from the yeast cell efficiently, which impedes and raises the cost of purification of these vital proteins. Our laboratory has isolated a mutant strain of Pichia pastoris that shows enhanced secretion of many proteins. The mutant produces a modified version of Bgs13p. Our goal is to understand how the change in the Bgs13p function leads to improved secretion. Once the Bgs13p mechanism is illuminated, we should be able to apply this understanding to engineer new P. pastoris strains that efficiently produce and secrete life-saving recombinant proteins, providing medical and economic benefits.
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Coexpression of Kex2 Endoproteinase and Hac1 Transcription Factor to Improve the Secretory Expression of Bovine Lactoferrin in Pichia pastoris. BIOTECHNOL BIOPROC E 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s12257-019-0176-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Toplak M, Brunner J, Tabib CR, Macheroux P. Closing the gap: yeast electron-transferring flavoprotein links the oxidation of d-lactate and d-α-hydroxyglutarate to energy production via the respiratory chain. FEBS J 2019; 286:3611-3628. [PMID: 31081204 PMCID: PMC6771786 DOI: 10.1111/febs.14924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2019] [Revised: 03/19/2019] [Accepted: 05/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Electron-transferring flavoproteins (ETFs) have been found in all kingdoms of life, mostly assisting in shuttling electrons to the respiratory chain for ATP production. While the human (h) ETF has been studied in great detail, very little is known about the biochemical properties of the homologous protein in the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yETF). In view of the absence of client dehydrogenases, for example, the acyl-CoA dehydrogenases involved in the β-oxidation of fatty acids, d-lactate dehydrogenase 2 (Dld2) appeared to be the only relevant enzyme that is serviced by yETF for electron transfer to the mitochondrial electron transport chain. However, this hypothesis was never tested experimentally. Here, we report the biochemical properties of yETF and Dld2 as well as the electron transfer reaction between the two proteins. Our study revealed that Dld2 oxidizes d-α-hydroxyglutarate more efficiently than d-lactate exhibiting kcatapp /KMapp values of 1200 ± 300 m-1 ·s-1 and 11 ± 2 m-1 ·s-1 , respectively. As expected, substrate-reduced Dld2 very slowly reacted with oxygen or the artificial electron acceptor 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol. However, photoreduced Dld2 was rapidly reoxidized by oxygen, suggesting that the reaction products, that is, α-ketoglutarate and pyruvate, 'lock' the reduced enzyme in an unreactive state. Interestingly, however, we could demonstrate that substrate-reduced Dld2 rapidly transfers electrons to yETF. Therefore, we conclude that the formation of a product-reduced Dld2 complex suppresses electron transfer to dioxygen but favors the rapid reduction in yETF, thus preventing the loss of electrons and the generation of reactive oxygen species.
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- Marina Toplak
- Institute of BiochemistryGraz University of TechnologyAustria
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- Institute of BiochemistryGraz University of TechnologyAustria
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- Institute of BiochemistryGraz University of TechnologyAustria
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Raschmanová H, Zamora I, Borčinová M, Meier P, Weninger A, Mächler D, Glieder A, Melzoch K, Knejzlík Z, Kovar K. Single-Cell Approach to Monitor the Unfolded Protein Response During Biotechnological Processes With Pichia pastoris. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:335. [PMID: 30873140 PMCID: PMC6404689 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2018] [Accepted: 02/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Pichia pastoris (Komagataella sp.) is broadly used for the production of secreted recombinant proteins. Due to the high rate of protein production, incorrectly folded proteins may accumulate in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). To restore their proper folding, the cell triggers the unfolded protein response (UPR); however, if the proteins cannot be repaired, they are degraded, which impairs process productivity. Moreover, a non-producing/non-secreting subpopulation of cells might occur, which also decreases overall productivity. Therefore, an in depth understanding of intracellular protein fluxes and population heterogeneity is needed to improve productivity. Under industrially relevant cultivation conditions in bioreactors, we cultured P. pastoris strains producing three different recombinant proteins: penicillin G acylase from Escherichia coli (EcPGA), lipase B from Candida antarctica (CaLB) and xylanase A from Thermomyces lanuginosus (TlXynA). Extracellular and intracellular product concentrations were determined, along with flow cytometry-based single-cell measurements of cell viability and the up-regulation of UPR. The cell population was distributed into four clusters, two of which were viable cells with no UPR up-regulation, differing in cell size and complexity. The other two clusters were cells with impaired viability, and cells with up-regulated UPR. Over the time course of cultivation, the distribution of the population into these four clusters changed. After 30 h of production, 60% of the cells producing EcPGA, which accumulated in the cells (50-70% of the product), had up-regulated UPR, but only 13% of the cells had impaired viability. A higher proportion of cells with decreased viability was observed in strains producing CaLB (20%) and TlXynA (27%). The proportion of cells with up-regulated UPR in CaLB-producing (35%) and TlXynA-producing (30%) strains was lower in comparison to the EcPGA-producing strain, and a smaller proportion of CaLB and TlXynA (<10%) accumulated in the cells. These data provide an insight into the development of heterogeneity in a recombinant P. pastoris population during a biotechnological process. A deeper understanding of the relationship between protein production/secretion and the regulation of the UPR might be utilized in bioprocess control and optimization with respect to secretion and population heterogeneity.
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- Hana Raschmanová
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Prague, Czechia.,Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, Wädenswil, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, Wädenswil, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, Wädenswil, Switzerland.,Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, Wädenswil, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, Wädenswil, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Prague, Czechia
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, Wädenswil, Switzerland
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Clone screening procedures for Pichia pastoris expression strain comparison rely on the availability of a cultivation environment that ensures equal growth and production capabilities for all assessed transformants. As clonal variation in such experiments is caused by diverging numbers and possibly also genomic locations of integrated (linearized) expression constructs, the productivity assessment of a larger number of strains is mandatory for selecting a set of strains for follow-up bioreactor cultivations in order to define the best-producing clone. Microscale cultivation provides the means to reliably compare growth and productivity of a large number of transformants and by that narrows down the amount of selected strains for scaling up.
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- Roland Weis
- VALIDOGEN (formerly VTU Technology) GmbH, Raaba-Grambach, Austria.
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Rinnofner C, Kerschbaumer B, Weber H, Glieder A, Winkler M. Cytochrome P450 mediated hydroxylation of ibuprofen using Pichia pastoris as biocatalyst. BIOCATALYSIS AND AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bcab.2018.12.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Li H, Xia Y. High-yield production of spider short-chain insecticidal neurotoxin Tx4(6-1) in Pichia pastoris and bioactivity assays in vivo. Protein Expr Purif 2018; 154:66-73. [PMID: 30292807 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2018.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2018] [Revised: 08/17/2018] [Accepted: 10/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Short-chain insecticidal neurotoxin Tx4(6-1) from the spider Phoneutria nigriventer can be prepared by reversed-phase high-performance liquid-chromatography (HPLC) fractionation of PhTx4, but this is difficult and represents an obstacle preventing analyses of its insecticidal activity against agricultural insect pests. Herein, we performed secretory expression of recombinant Tx4(6-1) using Pichia pastoris strain X33 as the host, and screened transformants using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). In flasks, ∼5 mg/l rTx4(6-1) was expressed as a secreted protein following induction with methanol, and this was increased to 45 mg/l rTx4(6-1) in a fed-batch reactor. Approximately 4 mg of high-purity rTx4(6-1) was purified from a 400 ml fed-batch culture supernatant by Ni+-nitriloacetic acid affinity chromatography, followed by carboxymethyl (CM) sepharose ion-exchange chromatography. Purified rTx4(6-1) was determined by mass spectrometry (MS) analysis, revealing a molecular weight (MW) of 7660.5 Da, larger than the expected size due to O-linked glycosylation. Insect bioactivity tests of rTx4(6-1)-treated fifth-instar silkworm larvae (Bombyx mori Linnaeus) showed neurotoxin symptoms such as contraction paralysis, abdominal contraction, and mouth movement syndrome, with a half lethal dose at 12 h post-injection of ∼4.5-8.5 μg/g body weight. Dietary toxicity was not observed in silkworm larvae.
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- Hongbo Li
- College of Biological and Food Engineering, Huaihua University, Huaihua, 418008, China; Postdoctoral Mobile Station of Biology, Genetic Engineering Research Center, College of Life Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China.
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- College of Biological and Food Engineering, Huaihua University, Huaihua, 418008, China.
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Vogl T, Kickenweiz T, Pitzer J, Sturmberger L, Weninger A, Biggs BW, Köhler EM, Baumschlager A, Fischer JE, Hyden P, Wagner M, Baumann M, Borth N, Geier M, Ajikumar PK, Glieder A. Engineered bidirectional promoters enable rapid multi-gene co-expression optimization. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3589. [PMID: 30181586 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-0591-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2018] [Accepted: 07/25/2018] [Indexed: 05/22/2023] Open
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Numerous synthetic biology endeavors require well-tuned co-expression of functional components for success. Classically, monodirectional promoters (MDPs) have been used for such applications, but MDPs are limited in terms of multi-gene co-expression capabilities. Consequently, there is a pressing need for new tools with improved flexibility in terms of genetic circuit design, metabolic pathway assembly, and optimization. Here, motivated by nature's use of bidirectional promoters (BDPs) as a solution for efficient gene co-expression, we generate a library of 168 synthetic BDPs in the yeast Komagataella phaffii (syn. Pichia pastoris), leveraging naturally occurring BDPs as a parts repository. This library of synthetic BDPs allows for rapid screening of diverse expression profiles and ratios to optimize gene co-expression, including for metabolic pathways (taxadiene, β-carotene). The modular design strategies applied for creating the BDP library could be relevant in other eukaryotic hosts, enabling a myriad of metabolic engineering and synthetic biology applications.
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- Thomas Vogl
- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, NAWI Graz, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
- Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, NAWI Graz, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, NAWI Graz, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Manus Biosynthesis, 1030 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 300, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, NAWI Graz, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, NAWI Graz, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
- Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Mattenstrasse 26, 4058, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, NAWI Graz, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, NAWI Graz, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, NAWI Graz, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Muthgasse 11, 1190, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190, Vienna, Austria
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- Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Muthgasse 11, 1190, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190, Vienna, Austria
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- Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, NAWI Graz, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010, Graz, Austria.
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Engineered bidirectional promoters enable rapid multi-gene co-expression optimization. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3589. [PMID: 30181586 PMCID: PMC6123417 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05915-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2018] [Accepted: 07/25/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Numerous synthetic biology endeavors require well-tuned co-expression of functional components for success. Classically, monodirectional promoters (MDPs) have been used for such applications, but MDPs are limited in terms of multi-gene co-expression capabilities. Consequently, there is a pressing need for new tools with improved flexibility in terms of genetic circuit design, metabolic pathway assembly, and optimization. Here, motivated by nature’s use of bidirectional promoters (BDPs) as a solution for efficient gene co-expression, we generate a library of 168 synthetic BDPs in the yeast Komagataella phaffii (syn. Pichia pastoris), leveraging naturally occurring BDPs as a parts repository. This library of synthetic BDPs allows for rapid screening of diverse expression profiles and ratios to optimize gene co-expression, including for metabolic pathways (taxadiene, β-carotene). The modular design strategies applied for creating the BDP library could be relevant in other eukaryotic hosts, enabling a myriad of metabolic engineering and synthetic biology applications. Classic monodirectional promoters are of limited use for multiple gene co-expression. Here the authors generate a library of 168 bidirectional promoters for the yeast K. phaffii (syn. P. pastoris) with diverse expression profiles to optimize metabolic pathway design.
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Aw R, McKay PF, Shattock RJ, Polizzi KM. A systematic analysis of the expression of the anti-HIV VRC01 antibody in Pichia pastoris through signal peptide optimization. Protein Expr Purif 2018; 149:43-50. [PMID: 29601964 PMCID: PMC5982643 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2018.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2017] [Revised: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Pichia pastoris (Komagataella phaffi) has been used for recombinant protein production for over 30 years with over 5000 proteins reported to date. However, yields of antibody are generally low. We have evaluated the effect of secretion signal peptides on the production of a broadly neutralizing antibody (VRC01) to increase yield. Eleven different signal peptides, including the murine IgG1 signal peptide, were combinatorially evaluated for their effect on antibody titer. Strains using different combinations of signal peptides were identified that secreted approximately 2-7 fold higher levels of VRC01 than the previous best secretor, with the highest yield of 6.50 mg L-1 in shake flask expression. Interestingly it was determined that the highest yields were achieved when the murine IgG1 signal peptide was fused to the light chain, with several different signal peptides leading to high yield when fused to the heavy chain. Finally, we have evaluated the effect of using a 2A signal peptide to create a bicistronic vector in the attempt to reduce burden and increase transformation efficiency, but found it to give reduced yields compared to using two independent vectors.
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- Rochelle Aw
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK; Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK; Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
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Kwiatos N, Jędrzejczak-Krzepkowska M, Strzelecki B, Bielecki S. Improvement of efficiency of brown coal biosolubilization by novel recombinant Fusarium oxysporum laccase. AMB Express 2018; 8:133. [PMID: 30136100 PMCID: PMC6104410 DOI: 10.1186/s13568-018-0669-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2018] [Accepted: 08/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Clean coal technologies (e.g. coal biosolubilization) are of essential value, especially in Europe, where coal is the national wealth and other energy sources like crude oil are not available. Fusarium oxysporum LOCK 1134, the strain isolated from brown coal, efficiently biosolubilizes lignite. The obtained liquefied products contain 50% less sulfur and over 99% less mercury than the crude coal. Moreover, the liquefied coal can be modified further by laccase. In this study F. oxysporum laccase was expressed in Pichia pastoris for the first time and was assessed as an additional agent for coal degradation. The novel laccase contributes to humic and fulvic acids release from liquefied coal due to introduction of oxygen into coal structure. The effect is increased when a natural redox mediator, sinapic acid, is present in the reaction mixture-up to 30% and 80% respectively. Humic acids obtained by biological process are environmentally friendly fertilizers that may have stimulating effects on crop growth.
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Li H, Xia Y. Improving the secretory expression of active recombinant AaIT in Pichia pastoris by changing the expression strain and plasmid. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2018; 34:104. [PMID: 29951705 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-018-2484-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 06/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Scorpion long-chain insect selective neurotoxin AaIT has the potential to be used against agricultural insect pests. However, there is still a lack of a heterologous gene expression system that can express AaIT efficiently. Here, using X33 as the host strain and pPICZαA as the expression vector, one transformant had the highest expression of recombinant AaIT (rAaIT) was obtained, and secreted as high as 240 mg/l rAaIT in fed-batch fermentation. Secretory rAaIT was purified by Ni2+-nitriloacetic affinity and CM chromatography, and 8 mg of high purity rAaIT were purified from 200 ml fed-batch fermentation cultures. Injecting silkworm (Bombyx mori Linnaeus) and Galleria mellonella larvae with rAaIT resulted in obvious neurotoxin symptoms and led to death. These results demonstrate that a large amount of anti-insect active rAaIT could be prepared efficiently.
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- Hongbo Li
- Postdoctoral Mobile Station of Biology, Genetic Engineering Research Center, College of Life Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China. .,The Key Laboratory of Research and Utilization of Ethnomedicinal Plant Resources of Hunan Province, College of Biological and Food Engineering, Huaihua University, Huaihua, 418008, China.
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- Postdoctoral Mobile Station of Biology, Genetic Engineering Research Center, College of Life Sciences, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China.
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Improved microscale cultivation of Pichia pastoris for clonal screening. Fungal Biol Biotechnol 2018; 5:8. [PMID: 29750118 PMCID: PMC5932850 DOI: 10.1186/s40694-018-0053-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2017] [Accepted: 03/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Expanding the application of technical enzymes, e.g., in industry and agriculture, commands the acceleration and cost-reduction of bioprocess development. Microplates and shake flasks are massively employed during screenings and early phases of bioprocess development, although major drawbacks such as low oxygen transfer rates are well documented. In recent years, miniaturization and parallelization of stirred and shaken bioreactor concepts have led to the development of novel microbioreactor concepts. They combine high cultivation throughput with reproducibility and scalability, and represent promising tools for bioprocess development. Results Parallelized microplate cultivation of the eukaryotic protein production host Pichia pastoris was applied effectively to support miniaturized phenotyping of clonal libraries in batch as well as fed-batch mode. By tailoring a chemically defined growth medium, we show that growth conditions are scalable from microliter to 0.8 L lab-scale bioreactor batch cultivation with different carbon sources. Thus, the set-up allows for a rapid physiological comparison and preselection of promising clones based on online data and simple offline analytics. This is exemplified by screening a clonal library of P. pastoris constitutively expressing AppA phytase from Escherichia coli. The protocol was further modified to establish carbon-limited conditions by employing enzymatic substrate-release to achieve screening conditions relevant for later protein production processes in fed-batch mode. Conclusion The comparison of clonal rankings under batch and fed-batch-like conditions emphasizes the necessity to perform screenings under process-relevant conditions. Increased biomass and product concentrations achieved after fed-batch microscale cultivation facilitates the selection of top producers. By reducing the demand to conduct laborious and cost-intensive lab-scale bioreactor cultivations during process development, this study will contribute to an accelerated development of protein production processes. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s40694-018-0053-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Toplak M, Wiedemann G, Ulićević J, Daniel B, Hoernstein SNW, Kothe J, Niederhauser J, Reski R, Winkler A, Macheroux P. The single berberine bridge enzyme homolog of Physcomitrella patens is a cellobiose oxidase. FEBS J 2018; 285:1923-1943. [PMID: 29633551 PMCID: PMC6001459 DOI: 10.1111/febs.14458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2018] [Revised: 03/17/2018] [Accepted: 03/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The berberine bridge enzyme from the California poppy Eschscholzia californica (EcBBE) catalyzes the oxidative cyclization of (S)‐reticuline to (S)‐scoulerine, that is, the formation of the berberine bridge in the biosynthesis of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids. Interestingly, a large number of BBE‐like genes have been identified in plants that lack alkaloid biosynthesis. This finding raised the question of the primordial role of BBE in the plant kingdom, which prompted us to investigate the closest relative of EcBBE in Physcomitrella patens (PpBBE1), the most basal plant harboring a BBE‐like gene. Here, we report the biochemical, structural, and in vivo characterization of PpBBE1. Our studies revealed that PpBBE1 is structurally and biochemically very similar to EcBBE. In contrast to EcBBE, we found that PpBBE1 catalyzes the oxidation of the disaccharide cellobiose to the corresponding lactone, that is, PpBBE1 is a cellobiose oxidase. The enzymatic reaction mechanism was characterized by a structure‐guided mutagenesis approach that enabled us to assign a catalytic role to amino acid residues in the active site of PpBBE1. In vivo experiments revealed the highest level of PpBBE1 expression in chloronema, the earliest stage of the plant's life cycle, where carbon metabolism is strongly upregulated. It was also shown that the enzyme is secreted to the extracellular space, where it may be involved in later steps of cellulose degradation, thereby allowing the moss to make use of cellulose for energy production. Overall, our results suggest that the primordial role of BBE‐like enzymes in plants revolved around primary metabolic reactions in carbohydrate utilization. Database Structural data are available in the PDB under the accession numbers 6EO4 and 6EO5.
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Graz University of Technology, Austria
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Graz University of Technology, Austria
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Graz University of Technology, Austria
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany.,BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Graz University of Technology, Austria
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Graz University of Technology, Austria
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Effect of Plasmid Design and Type of Integration Event on Recombinant Protein Expression in Pichia pastoris. Appl Environ Microbiol 2018; 84:AEM.02712-17. [PMID: 29330186 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02712-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2017] [Accepted: 01/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Pichia pastoris (syn. Komagataella phaffii) is one of the most common eukaryotic expression systems for heterologous protein production. Expression cassettes are typically integrated in the genome to obtain stable expression strains. In contrast to Saccharomyces cerevisiae, where short overhangs are sufficient to target highly specific integration, long overhangs are more efficient in P. pastoris and ectopic integration of foreign DNA can occur. Here, we aimed to elucidate the influence of ectopic integration by high-throughput screening of >700 transformants and whole-genome sequencing of 27 transformants. Different vector designs and linearization approaches were used to mimic the most common integration events targeted in P. pastoris Fluorescence of an enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) reporter protein was highly uniform among transformants when the expression cassettes were correctly integrated in the targeted locus. Surprisingly, most nonspecifically integrated transformants showed highly uniform expression that was comparable to specific integration, suggesting that nonspecific integration does not necessarily influence expression. However, a few clones (<10%) harboring ectopically integrated cassettes showed a greater variation spanning a 25-fold range, surpassing specifically integrated reference strains up to 6-fold. High-expression strains showed a correlation between increased gene copy numbers and high reporter protein fluorescence levels. Our results suggest that for comparing expression levels between strains, the integration locus can be neglected as long as a sufficient numbers of transformed strains are compared. For expression optimization of highly expressible proteins, increasing copy number appears to be the dominant positive influence rather than the integration locus, genomic rearrangements, deletions, or single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).IMPORTANCE Yeasts are commonly used as biotechnological production hosts for proteins and metabolites. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, expression cassettes carrying foreign genes integrate highly specifically at the targeted sites in the genome. In contrast, cassettes often integrate at random genomic positions in nonconventional yeasts, such as Pichia pastoris (syn. Komagataella phaffii). Hence, cells from the same transformation event often behave differently, with significant clonal variation necessitating the screening of large numbers of strains. The importance of this study is that we systematically investigated the influence of integration events in more than 700 strains. Our findings provide novel insight into clonal variation in P. pastoris and, thus, how to avoid pitfalls and obtain reliable results. The underlying mechanisms may also play a role in other yeasts and hence could be generally relevant for recombinant yeast protein production strains.
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