Expression of highly disulfide-bonded proteins in Pichia pastoris.
Expression of highly disulfide-bonded proteins in Pichia pastoris.
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DOI:
10.1016/s0969-2126(94)00103-0
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发表时间:
1994-11
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影响因子:
5.7
通讯作者:
C. E. White;N. Kempi;E. Komives
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作者:
C. E. White;N. Kempi;E. Komives
Escherichia coli. Unfortunately, E. coli systems are not suitable for all proteins. For example, highly disulfidebonded proteins usually cannot be made successfully by expression in E. coli because the cytoplasm of E. coli is a reducing environment. As a result of this, disulfidebonded proteins must be either refolded from E. coli inclusion bodies, or secreted into the periplasmic space. Typically both of these strategies result in low yields. Pichia pastoris yeast expression has been successfully utilized to produce large quantities of disulfide-bonded proteins, and other proteins that cannot be expressed in bacteria. pastoris provides an excellent alternative to E. coli expression systems for several reasons. Firstly, proteins produced in P? pastoris are usually folded correctly because yeast provide an intracellular folding environment similar to that in mammalian cells. Secondly, secretion of proteins into the medium surrounding the P? pastoris yeast cells can be easily accomplished, providing a substantial improvement in purification. Thirdly, extremely high yields of protein per liter of culture (typically 100-500 mg 1-1) can be obtained from multicopy inserts when expression is carried out in a fermenter. Fourthly, PI pastoris yeast can be grown in defined media and 15N-or 13 C-labeled proteins can be easily obtained. Fifthly, transformation and growth of P pastoris does not require special hoods, incubators or techniques other than those used for E. coli. Finally, spheroplast transformation produces multicopy insertion of the gene of interest, vastly increasing the yield of protein, and it is easy to select for multicopy insert transformants.We present here the methods for spheroplast transformation of P. pastoris yeast and for obtaining (and selecting for) insertion of multiple copies of the gene of interest into the alcohol oxidase (AOX1) gene of the P pastoris yeast genome. We then present preliminary data for production of a fragment of thrombomodulin which we have successfully expressed in P? pastoris.