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A quantitative study of methanol/sorbitol co-feeding process of a Pichia pastoris Mut(+)/pAOX1-lacZ strain.
Niu, Hongxing; Jost, Laurent; Pirlot, Nathalie et al.
2013In Microbial Cell Factories, 12, p. 33
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Abstract :
[en] BACKGROUND: One of the main challenges for heterologous protein production by the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris at large-scale is related to its high oxygen demand. A promising solution is a co-feeding strategy based on a methanol/sorbitol mixture during the induction phase. Nonetheless, a deep understanding of the cellular physiology and the regulation of the AOX1 promoter, used to govern heterologous protein production, during this co-feeding strategy is still scarce. RESULTS: Transient continuous cultures with a dilution rate of 0.023 h(-1) at 25 degrees C were performed to quantitatively assess the benefits of a methanol/sorbitol co-feeding process with a Mut+ strain in which the pAOX1-lacZ construct served as a reporter gene. Cell growth and metabolism, including O2 consumption together with CO2 and heat production were analyzed with regard to a linear change of methanol fraction in the mixed feeding media. In addition, the regulation of the promoter AOX1 was investigated by means of beta-galactosidase measurements. Our results demonstrated that the cell-specific oxygen consumption (qO2) could be reduced by decreasing the methanol fraction in the feeding media. More interestingly, maximal beta-galactosidase cell-specific activity (>7500 Miller unit) and thus, optimal pAOX1 induction, was achieved and maintained in the range of 0.45 ~ 0.75 C-mol/C-mol of methanol fraction. In addition, the qO2 was reduced by 30% at most in those conditions. Based on a simplified metabolic network, metabolic flux analysis (MFA) was performed to quantify intracellular metabolic flux distributions during the transient continuous cultures, which further shed light on the advantages of methanol/sorbitol co-feeding process. Finally, our observations were further validated in fed-batch cultures. CONCLUSION: This study brings quantitative insight into the co-feeding process, which provides valuable data for the control of methanol/sorbitol co-feeding, aiming at enhancing biomass and heterologous protein productivities under given oxygen supply. According to our results, beta-galactosidase productivity could be improved about 40% using the optimally mixed feed.
Disciplines :
Microbiology
Author, co-author :
Niu, Hongxing
Jost, Laurent
Pirlot, Nathalie
Sassi, Hosni
Daukandt, Marc
Rodriguez, Christian
Fickers, Patrick ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Chimie et bio-industries > Bio-industries
Language :
English
Title :
A quantitative study of methanol/sorbitol co-feeding process of a Pichia pastoris Mut(+)/pAOX1-lacZ strain.
Publication date :
2013
Journal title :
Microbial Cell Factories
eISSN :
1475-2859
Publisher :
BioMed Central, United Kingdom
Volume :
12
Pages :
33
Peer reviewed :
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