Evaluation of pKD1-based plasmid systems for heterologous protein production in Kluyveromyces lactis

2002 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Panuwatsuk, N. Da Silva
2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 922-929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Camattari ◽  
Michele M. Bianchi ◽  
Paola Branduardi ◽  
Danilo Porro ◽  
Luca Brambilla

ABSTRACT The control of promoter activity by oxygen availability appears to be an intriguing system for heterologous protein production. In fact, during cell growth in a bioreactor, an oxygen shortage is easily obtained simply by interrupting the air supply. The purpose of our work was to explore the possible use of hypoxic induction of the KlPDC1 promoter to direct heterologous gene expression in yeast. In the present study, an expression system based on the KlPDC1 promoter was developed and characterized. Several heterologous proteins, differing in size, origin, localization, and posttranslational modification, were successfully expressed in Kluyveromyces lactis under the control of the wild type or a modified promoter sequence, with a production ratio between 4 and more than 100. Yields were further optimized by a more accurate control of hypoxic physiological conditions. Production of as high as 180 mg/liter of human interleukin-1β was obtained, representing the highest value obtained with yeasts in a lab-scale bioreactor to date. Moreover, the transferability of our system to related yeasts was assessed. The lacZ gene from Escherichia coli was cloned downstream of the KlPDC1 promoter in order to get β-galactosidase activity in response to induction of the promoter. A centromeric vector harboring this expression cassette was introduced in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and in Zygosaccharomyces bailii, and effects of hypoxic induction were measured and compared to those already observed in K. lactis cells. Interestingly, we found that the induction still worked in Z. bailii; thus, this promotor constitutes a possible inducible system for this new nonconventional host.


1999 ◽  
Vol 65 (11) ◽  
pp. 4808-4813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni B. Morlino ◽  
Lorenza Tizzani ◽  
Reinhard Fleer ◽  
Laura Frontali ◽  
Michele M. Bianchi

ABSTRACT Heterologous protein production can be doubled by increasing the copy number of the corresponding heterologous gene. We constructed a host-vector system in the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis that was able to induce copy number amplification of pKD1 plasmid-based vectors upon expression of an integrated copy of the plasmid recombinase gene. We increased the production and secretion of two heterologous proteins, glucoamylase from the yeast Arxula adeninivorans and mammalian interleukin-1β, following gene dosage amplification when the heterologous genes were carried by pKD1-based vectors. The choice of the promoters for expression of the integrated recombinase gene and of the episomal heterologous genes are critical for the mitotic stability of the host-vector system.


2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Culleton ◽  
Ourdia Bouzid ◽  
Vincent McKie ◽  
Ronald Vries

Yeast ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 871-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Martín-Granados ◽  
Sean-Patrick Riechers ◽  
Ulf Stahl ◽  
Christine Lang

AIChE Journal ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (10) ◽  
pp. 2966-2979 ◽  
Author(s):  
José M. Barrigón ◽  
Ramon Ramon ◽  
Isabel Rocha ◽  
Francisco Valero ◽  
Eugénio C. Ferreira ◽  
...  

Yeast ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Macauley-Patrick ◽  
Mariana L. Fazenda ◽  
Brian McNeil ◽  
Linda M. Harvey

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