scholarly journals Production of soluble regulatory hydrogenase from Ralstonia eutropha in Escherichia coli using a fed-batch-based autoinduction system

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qin Fan ◽  
Peter Neubauer ◽  
Matthias Gimpel

Abstract Background Autoinduction systems can regulate protein production in Escherichia coli without the need to monitor cell growth or add inducer at the proper time following culture growth. Compared to classical IPTG induction, autoinduction provides a simple and fast way to obtain high protein yields. In the present study, we report on the optimization process for the enhanced heterologous production of the Ralstonia eutropha regulatory hydrogenase (RH) in E. coli using autoinduction. These autoinduction methods were combined with the EnPresso B fed-batch like growth system, which applies slow in situ enzymatic glucose release from a polymer to control cell growth and protein synthesis rate. Results We were able to produce 125 mg L−1 RH corresponding to a productivity averaged over the whole process time of 3 mg (L h)−1 in shake flasks using classic single-shot IPTG induction. IPTG autoinduction resulted in a comparable volumetric RH yield of 112 mg L−1 and due to the shorter overall process time in a 1.6-fold higher productivity of 5 mg (L h)−1. In contrast, lactose autoinduction increased the volumetric yield more than 2.5-fold and the space time yield fourfold reaching 280 mg L−1 and 11.5 mg (L h)−1, respectively. Furthermore, repeated addition of booster increased RH production to 370 mg L−1, which to our knowledge is the highest RH concentration produced in E. coli to date. Conclusions The findings of this study confirm the general feasibility of the developed fed-batch based autoinduction system and provide an alternative to conventional induction systems for efficient recombinant protein production. We believe that the fed-batch based autoinduction system developed herein will favor the heterologous production of larger quantities of difficult-to-express complex enzymes to enable economical production of these kinds of proteins.

Genes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Chen ◽  
Sumana Venkat ◽  
Jessica Wilson ◽  
Paige McGuire ◽  
Abigail Chang ◽  
...  

Recombinant protein production plays an essential role in both biological studies and pharmaceutical production. Escherichia coli is one of the most favorable hosts for this purpose. Although a number of strategies for optimizing protein production have been developed, the effect of gene overexpression on host cell growth has been much less studied. Here, we performed high-throughput tests on the E. coli a complete set of E. coli K-12 ORF archive (ASKA) collection to quantify the effects of overexpressing individual E. coli genes on its growth. The results indicated that overexpressing membrane-associated proteins or proteins with high abundances of branched-chain amino acids tended to impair cell growth, the latter of which could be remedied by amino acid supplementation. Through this study, we expect to provide an index for a fast pre-study estimate of host cell growth in order to choose proper rescuing approaches when working with different proteins.


Author(s):  
Aidin Behravan ◽  
atieh hashemi ◽  
Sayed-Amir Marashi

Increasing demand for recombinant therapeutic proteins highlights the necessity of their yield improvement. Culture medium formulation is a popular approach for bioprocess optimization to improve therapeutic protein production. Constraint-based modeling can empower high-precision optimization through information on how media compounds affect metabolism and cell growth. In the current study, a genome-scale metabolic model (GEMM) of Escherichia coli cells was employed to design strategies of minimal medium supplementation for higher antiEpEX-scFv production. Dynamic flux balance analysis of the recombinant E. coli cell model predicted that ammonium was depleted during the process. Based on the simulations, three amino acids (Asn, Gln and Arg) were chosen to be added to the medium to compensate for ammonium depletion. Experimental validation suggested that the addition of these amino acids (one-by-one, or in combinations) can indeed improve cell growth and recombinant protein production. Then, design of experiment was used to optimize the concentrations of amino acids in the growth medium. About two-fold increase in the growth rate and total scFv expression level was observed using this strategy. We conclude that the GEMM-based approach can provide insights into an effective feeding strategy to improve the production of recombinant protein in E. coli.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gonzalez-Perez ◽  
James Ratcliffe ◽  
Shu Khan Tan ◽  
Mary Chen May Wong ◽  
Yi Pei Yee ◽  
...  

AbstractSignal peptides and secretory carrier proteins are commonly used to secrete heterologous recombinant protein in Gram-negative bacteria. The Escherichia coli osmotically-inducible protein Y (OsmY) is a carrier protein that secretes a target protein extracellularly, and we have previously applied it in the Bacterial Extracellular Protein Secretion System (BENNY) to accelerate directed evolution. In this study, we reported the first application of random and combinatorial mutagenesis on a carrier protein to enhance total secretory target protein production. After one round of random mutagenesis followed by combining the mutations found, OsmY(M3) (L6P, V43A, S154R, V191E) was identified as the best carrier protein. OsmY(M3) produced 3.1 ± 0.3 fold and 2.9 ± 0.8 fold more secretory Tfu0937 β-glucosidase than its wildtype counterpart in E. coli strains BL21(DE3) and C41(DE3), respectively. OsmY(M3) also produced more secretory Tfu0937 at different cultivation temperatures (37 °C, 30 °C and 25 °C) compared to the wildtype. Subcellular fractionation of the expressed protein confirmed the essential role of OsmY in protein secretion. Up to 80.8 ± 12.2% of total soluble protein was secreted after 15 h of cultivation. When fused to a red fluorescent protein or a lipase from Bacillus subtillis, OsmY(M3) also produced more secretory protein compared to the wildtype. In this study, OsmY(M3) variant improved the extracellular production of three proteins originating from diverse organisms and with diverse properties, clearly demonstrating its wide-ranging applications. The use of random and combinatorial mutagenesis on the carrier protein demonstrated in this work can also be further extended to evolve other signal peptides or carrier proteins for secretory protein production in E. coli.


TECHNOLOGY ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 135-138
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Kamal Ahmadi ◽  
Samar Fawaz ◽  
Blaine A. Pfeifer

Natural products span broad activities and applications; however, their access and production are often limited by native cellular sources. As a result, the heterologous production of a siderophore termed yersiniabactin (Ybt) was completed using the surrogate host Escherichia coli. Post-production and purification steps are complicated by the complex nature of most media used for cell growth, prompting the development in this work of an aqueous two-phase pre-purification system capable of rapidly and simply enhancing the concentration of the target Ybt compound.


2009 ◽  
Vol 191 (10) ◽  
pp. 3248-3255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Zhu ◽  
Koichi Inoue ◽  
Satoshi Yoshizumi ◽  
Hiroshi Kobayashi ◽  
Yonglong Zhang ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Escherichia coli mRNA interferases, such as MazF and ChpBK, are sequence-specific endoribonucleases encoded by toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems present in its genome. A MazF homologue in Staphylococcus aureus (MazFSa) has been shown to inhibit cell growth when induced in E. coli. Here, we determined the cleavage site for MazFSa with the use of phage MS2 RNA as a substrate and CspA, an RNA chaperone, which prevents the formation of secondary structures in the RNA substrate. MazFSa specifically cleaves the RNA at a pentad sequence, U↓ACAU. Bioinformatics analysis revealed that this pentad sequence is significantly abundant in several genes, including the sraP gene in the S. aureus N315 strain. This gene encodes a serine-rich protein, which is known to play an important role in adhesion of the pathogen to human tissues and thus in endovascular infection. We demonstrated that the sraP mRNA became extremely unstable in comparison with the ompA mRNA only when MazFSa was induced in E. coli. Further bioinformatics analysis indicated that the pentad sequence is also significantly abundant in the mRNAs for all the pathogenic factors in S. aureus. This observation suggests a possible regulatory relationship between the MazEFSa TA module and the pathogenicity in S. aureus.


2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (6) ◽  
pp. 1259-1268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Lemmerer ◽  
Juergen Mairhofer ◽  
Alexander Lepak ◽  
Karin Longus ◽  
Rainer Hahn ◽  
...  

Metabolites ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 228
Author(s):  
R. Axayacatl Gonzalez-Garcia ◽  
Lars K. Nielsen ◽  
Esteban Marcellin

Polyketides are a remarkable class of natural products with diverse functional and structural diversity. The class includes many medicinally important molecules with antiviral, antimicrobial, antifungal and anticancer properties. Native bacterial, fungal and plant hosts are often difficult to cultivate and coax into producing the desired product. As a result, Escherichia coli has been used for the heterologous production of polyketides, with the production of 6-deoxyerythronolide B (6-dEB) being the first example. Current strategies for production in E. coli require feeding of exogenous propionate as a source for the precursors propionyl-CoA and S-methylmalonyl-CoA. Here, we show that heterologous polyketide production is possible from glucose as the sole carbon source. The heterologous expression of eight genes from the Wood-Werkman cycle found in Propionibacteria, in combination with expression of the 6-dEB synthases DEBS1, DEBS2 and DEBS3 resulted in 6-dEB formation from glucose as the sole carbon source. Our results show that the Wood-Werkman cycle provides the required propionyl-CoA and the extender unit S-methylmalonyl-CoA to produce up to 0.81 mg/L of 6-dEB in a chemically defined media.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 3052-3066
Author(s):  
Meritxell Galindo Casas ◽  
Patrick Stargardt ◽  
Juergen Mairhofer ◽  
Birgit Wiltschi

2000 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 884-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuyo Nishihara ◽  
Masaaki Kanemori ◽  
Hideki Yanagi ◽  
Takashi Yura

ABSTRACT To examine the effects of overexpression of trigger factor (TF) on recombinant proteins produced in Escherichia coli, we constructed plasmids that permitted controlled expression of TF alone or together with the GroEL-GroES chaperones. The following three proteins that are prone to aggregation were tested as targets: mouse endostatin, human oxygen-regulated protein ORP150, and human lysozyme. The results revealed that TF overexpression had marked effects on the production of these proteins in soluble forms, presumably through facilitating correct folding. Whereas overexpression of TF alone was sufficient to prevent aggregation of endostatin, overexpression of TF together with GroEL-GroES was more effective for ORP150 and lysozyme, suggesting that TF and GroEL-GroES play synergistic roles in vivo. Although coexpression of the DnaK-DnaJ-GrpE chaperones was also effective for endostatin and ORP150, coexpression of TF and GroEL-GroES was more effective for lysozyme. These results attest to the usefulness of the present expression plasmids for improving protein production inE. coli.


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