重组大肠杆菌高密度发酵生产类人胶原蛋白Ⅱ条件优化

通过考察pH、培养温度、溶解氧浓度和诱导时机对细胞生长和类人胶原蛋白Ⅱ表达的影响, 确定这些因素的最佳控制范围, 优化发酵条件。结果表明: 控制初始pH为6.5, 诱导后pH为6.8, 培养温度34°C, DO 20%及在对数生长后期进行诱导, 有利于细胞生长和外源基因的表达, 最终细胞密度为88.4 g/L, 类人胶原蛋白Ⅱ产量达到14.2 g/L。     

基因重组大肠杆菌表达类人胶原蛋白诱导条件优化研究

为了提高重组大肠杆菌BL21高密度发酵生产类人胶原蛋白的产量,分别研究了诱导时机、乙酸浓度、诱导强度以及补氮方式对外源基因表达的影响,并对各因素进行了优化。采用补料-分批式发酵,初始装液体积为6L。最终细胞密度可达到84.3g／L,类人胶原蛋白的表达量为14.6g/L。结果表明:在对数生长的中后期进行诱导,尽量减少乙酸的积累量,42℃诱导3h后降温至39℃继续诱导,并采用每隔10min补36ml补料氮溶液的周期操作方式,有利于细胞的生长和外源蛋白的表达。     

III型类人胶原蛋白在大肠杆菌重组表达及发酵制备

【背景】胶原蛋白广泛应用于日用化工及生物医药中,相比传统方法,基因工程方法制备胶原蛋白具有避免病毒隐患、产量高等优点,逐步受到广泛关注。【目的】获得III型类人胶原蛋白基因,实现大肠杆菌中的异源表达。【方法】以人III型胶原蛋白α1链为模板,(Gly-X-Y)为最小研究单位,优选亲水性氨基酸,设计目标基因kit,构建重组大肠杆菌(Escherichia coli) pET-28a(+)-kit/BL21(DE3),并对其结构进行表征。【结果】类人胶原蛋白基因kit成功在大肠杆菌体系中表达,表达量约为0.53 g/L,7 L发酵罐上补料发酵后其最大表达量提高至3.02 g/L,亲和层析纯化类人胶原蛋白纯度约为91%,对其进行N端测序、氨基酸分析、质谱分析及圆二色谱分析,确定类人胶原蛋白成功表达。【结论】类人胶原蛋白的成功表达为未来规模化制备及其在日用化工及生物医药行业的应用奠定了基础。     

模拟青霉素分批补料发酵过程的细胞自动机模型

根据青霉素产生菌的生长机理和青霉素分批补料发酵过程的动力学特性,在Paull等建立的形态学结构动力学模型的基础上,建立了模拟青霉素分批补料发酵过程的细胞自动机模型。模型采用三维细胞自动机作为菌体生长空间,采用Moore型邻域作为细胞邻域,其演化规则根据青霉素分批补料发酵过程中菌体生长机理和简化动力学结构模型设计。模型中的每一个细胞既可代表单个产黄青霉菌体细胞,又可代表特定数量的这种菌体细胞,它具有不同的状态。对模型进行的仿真实验结果表明：模型不但能一致地复现形态学结构动力学模型所描述的青霉素分批补料发酵过程的演化特性,而且较形态学结构动力学模型更加直观地刻画了青霉素分批补料发酵过程的演化行为。最后,对所建模型在实际生产过程中的应用问题进行了分析,指出了需要进一步研究的问题。     

影响重组工程菌发酵产率的因素

随着分子生物学对表达外源基因的重组工程菌的研究的不断深入以及重组ＤＮＡ技术的发展,为我们更科学而不是经验地研究重组工程菌的发酵规律提供了理论基础。但有关微生物生理与质粒拷贝数、质粒稳定性和外源基因表达之间相互关系的研究还较少。本文重点综述了质粒拷贝数、质粒稳定性及外源基因表达水平等因素及环境条件对发酵过程中目标产物产率的影响,同时探讨了在工程菌发酵中以上因素的控制方法。     

补料发酵工艺的应用及其研究进展

综述了补料工艺在发酵工业中应用和研究。介绍了补料发酵工艺及其优点,着重讨论了补料发酵动力学和控制理论研究,以期为补料发酵的应用提供充分的参考依据。     

响应面法优化重组工程菌的发酵工艺条件

目的：对基因改造运动发酵单胞菌的发酵工艺条件进行优化,提高重组菌发酵乙醇产量。方法：使用分子克隆实验操作技术构建重组运动发酵单胞菌,以单因素实验为基础,利用Box-Behnken中心组合实验和响应面分析法,确定了影响重组菌高产乙醇的三个重要因素。结果：成功构建含有YfdZ、MetB基因和Hsp基因的重组菌Zymomonas mobilis HYM,发酵主要影响因素的最佳条件分别为温度28℃,葡萄糖浓度24%（W/V）,pH7.4。在此优化条件下,Zymomonas mobilis HYM的乙醇产量可高达105.0735g/l,比原始菌株乙醇产量提高16.4%。结论：用中心组合设计和响应面分析法优化重组运动发酵单胞菌的发酵工艺条件,显著提高乙醇产量。     

浅析工程菌发酵培养

工程菌发酵培养主要包括育种技术、发酵过程的优化等。其中良好的生产菌种是发酵工作的中心环节。在传统的发酵工业中 ,菌种的诱变和筛选工作起着非常重要的作用。在七·五期间 ,国家发展高技术产业确定后 ,基因工程技术 (重组ＤＮＡ技术 )为发酵工程开辟了广阔的领域。生物技术产品作为优先开发的领域之一 ,给我国生命科学领域带来了一场深刻的革命 ,科学家们利用基因操作技术克隆出目的基因 ,然后将其组装入表达质粒 ,转染到宿主细胞中 ,经过发酵诱导表达目的产物以及纯化等一系列程序生产出所需要的目的产物。特别是医疗用蛋白、多肽类治…     

柠檬酸发酵过程的动力学

发酵动力学是微生物培养过程研究中的一个重要部分,它让人们从理论和定量的角度了解和分析微生物的培养过程,是过程设计和控制的基础．柠檬酸发酵过程的动力学．Chemiel^[1]、Kristiansen^〔2〕、Khan^〔3〕、Rohr^〔4〕、Vaija^〔5〕等曾作过研究。本文在考察前人工作的基础上．结合实验研究．进行如下探索。     

重组蛋白G基因工程菌高密度发酵及其分离纯化

蛋白G是链球菌细胞壁蛋白,能和哺乳免疫球蛋白结合,在分离抗体研究方面具有重要的作用。重组蛋白G(SPG)基因重组工程菌高密度发酵工艺和SPG分离纯化研究工艺直接影响了蛋白G的应用。通过一级、二级种子培养,转接到发酵罐及控制补料浓度、加入IPTG等条件,考察了接种量、氧气、pH、培养方式等发酵工艺,以及超声破碎菌体、镍柱亲和层析、Sephadex G-25凝胶过滤层析和DEAE-FF离子交换层析分离提取SPG工艺,并用SDS-PAGE检测分离提取效果。高密度发酵能得到至少80g/L的菌体,最高达到150g/L的菌体,每升发酵液可得到1g的SPG。本生产工艺可得到高浓度和高产量的SPG。     

Characteristics of fed-batch cultures of recombinant <Emphasis Type="Italic">Escherichia coli</Emphasis> containing human-like collagen cDNA at different specific growth rates

Fed-batch cultures of recombinant Escherichia coli BL21 for producing human-like collagen were performed at different specific growth rates (0.1~0.25 h⁻¹) before induction and at a constant value of 0.05 h⁻¹ after induction by the method of pseudo-exponential feeding. Although the final biomass (around 69 g l⁻¹) was almost the same in all fed-batch cultures, the highest product concentration (13.6 g l⁻¹) was achieved at the specific growth rate of 0.15 h⁻¹ and the lowest (9.6 g l⁻¹) at 0.25 h⁻¹. The mean productivity of human-like collagen was the highest at 0.15 h⁻¹ (0.57 g l⁻¹ h⁻¹) and the lowest at 0.1 h⁻¹ (0.35 g l⁻¹ h⁻¹). In the phase before induction, the cell yield coefficient (Y_X/S) decreased when the specific growth rate increased, while the formation of acetic acid increased upto 2.5 g l⁻¹ at 0.25 h⁻¹. The mean product yield coefficient (Y_P/S) also decreased with specific growth rate increasing. The respiration quotient (RQ) increased slightly with specific growth rate increasing before induction, and the mean value of RQ was around 72%. The optimum growth rate for human-like collagen production was 0.15~0.2 h⁻¹.     

Analysis of metabolic flux in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Escherichia coli</Emphasis> expressing human-like collagen in fed-batch culture

Metabolic flux distributions of recombinant Escherichia coli BL21 expressing human-like collagen were determined by means of a stoichiometric network and metabolic balancing. At the batch growth stage, the fluxes of the pentose phosphate pathway were higher than the fluxes of the fed-batch growth phase and the production stage. After the temperature was increased, there was a substantially elevated energy demand for synthesizing human-like collagen and heat-shock proteins, which resulted in changes in metabolic fluxes. The activities of the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway and the tricarboxylic acid cycle were significantly enhanced, leading to a reduction in the fluxes of the pentose phosphate pathway and other anabolic pathways. The temperature upshift also caused an increase in NADPH production by isocitrate dehydrogenase in the tricarboxylic acid cycle. The metabolic model predicted the involvement of a transhydrogenase that generates additional NADH from NADPH, thereby increasing ATP regeneration in the respiratory chain. These data indicated that the maintenance energy for cellular activity increased with the increase in biomass in fed-batch culture, and that cell growth and synthesis of human-like collagen could clearly represent the changes in metabolic fluxes. At the production stage, more NADPH was used to synthesize human-like collagen than for maintaining cellular activity, cell growth, and cell propagation. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.     

The selective roles of chaperone systems on over-expression of human-like collagen in recombinant Escherichia coli

Human-like collagen (HLC) is a novel biomedical material with promising applications. Usually, insoluble HLC was formed due to over-expression. In order to improve the production of soluble HLC, the effective chaperone proteins and their mediation roles on HLC were clarified. Trigger factor (TF) pathway with low specificity and high binding affinity to nascent chains could increase soluble HLC expression; GroEL-GroES could increase the expression level of HLC by assisting the correct folding of HLC and increase mRNA level of the gene coding for HLC by enhancing mRNA stability. DnaK chaperone system did not work positively on soluble HLC due to the unbalanced ratio of DnaK:DnaJ:GrpE, especially too high GrpE significantly inhibited DnaK-mediated refolding. The production of soluble HLC with co-expression of exogenous TF and GroEL-GroES was increased by 35.3 % in comparison with the highest value 0.26 g/L reported previously.     

High-level production of human leptin by fed-batch cultivation of recombinant Escherichia coli and its purification.

Human leptin is a 16-kDa (146-amino-acid) protein that is secreted from adipocytes and influences body weight homeostasis. In order to obtain high-level production of leptin, the human obese gene coding for leptin was expressed in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) under the strong inducible T7 promoter. The recombinant leptin was produced as inclusion bodies in E. coli, and the recombinant leptin content was as high as 54% of the total protein content. For production of recombinant human leptin in large amounts, pH-stat fed-batch cultures were grown. Expression of leptin was induced at three different cell optical densities at 600 nm (OD600), 30, 90, and 140. When cells were induced at an OD600 of 90, the amount of leptin produced was 9.7 g/liter (37% of the total protein). After simple purification steps consisting of inclusion body isolation, denaturation and refolding, and anion-exchange chromatography, 144.9 mg of leptin that was more than 90% pure was obtained from a 50-ml culture, and the recovery yield was 41.1%.     

Physiologically motivated strategies for control of the fed-batch cultivation of recombinant Escherichia coli for phenylalanine production

The efficiency of the fed-batch cultivation of recombinant Escherichia coli AT2471 for phenylalanine production is highly dependent on the distribution of the carbon flow between the main process products — biomass, phenylalanine, acetic acid and carbon dioxide. In order to enhance the process performance, the effects of several factors, namely glucose feeding, tyrosine feeding and oxygen supply, were investigated experimentally. As a result, a set of control strategies was developed, designed to tolerate phenylalanine synthesis at the expense of the remaining products. The DO was controlled to prevent acetic acid excretion due to oxygen limitation. The total amount of tyrosine fed was used to provide an optimal balance between biomass synthesis and that of phenylalanine. Special algorithms for control of the glucose feed rate were applied to eliminate the threat of acetic acid excretion due to overfeeding, and at the same time, to reduce excessive CO₂ evolution caused by unnecessarily severe glucose limitation. The joint application of these strategies resulted in greatly improved efficiency in the phenylalanine production process: the final phenylalanine concentration reached 46 g/l, the yield was above 17%, and the productivity-0.85 g/l·h. In combination, these data exceed the results reported by others, and are much higher than those obtained by use before the implementation of the proposed complex of techniques.     

Production of biomass and recombinant human-like collagen in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Escherichia coli</Emphasis> processes with different CO<Subscript>2</Subscript> pulses

The evolution of CO₂ in a fed-batch culture of recombinant Escherichia coli containing human-like collagen (HLC) cDNA was determined with an O₂-enriched air supply (40%, v/v) in a 12.8 l fermentor; a maximum CO₂ concentration of 12.7% in the effluent gas was detected. The CO₂ pulse injection experiments showed that: (1) a 20% CO₂ pulse introduced in the batch cultivation phases inhibited cell growth but if introduced in the fed-batch cultivation phases slightly stimulated growth; and (2) CO₂ inhibited HLC expression only in the expression phase, where the final HLC concentration decreased by 34% under a 3 h 20% CO₂ pulse. The higher the CO₂ concentration and/or the longer the duration of the CO₂ pulse, the stronger the stimulatory or inhibitory effects. An erratum to this article can be found at     

Soft sensor control of metabolic fluxes in a recombinant Escherichia coli fed-batch cultivation producing green fluorescence protein

A soft sensor approach is described for controlling metabolic overflow from mixed-acid fermentation and glucose overflow metabolism in a fed-batch cultivation for production of recombinant green fluorescence protein (GFP) in Escherichia coli. The hardware part of the sensor consisted of a near-infrared in situ probe that monitored the E. coli biomass and an HPLC analyzer equipped with a filtration unit that measured the overflow metabolites. The computational part of the soft sensor used basic kinetic equations and summations for estimation of specific rates and total metabolite concentrations. Two control strategies for media feeding of the fed-batch cultivation were evaluated: (1) controlling the specific rates of overflow metabolism and mixed-acid fermentation metabolites at a fixed pre-set target values, and (2) controlling the concentration of the sum of these metabolites at a set level. The results indicate that the latter strategy was more efficient for maintaining a high titer and low variability of the produced recombinant GFP protein.     

Galactose-limited fed-batch cultivation of Escherichia coli for the production of lacto-N-tetraose

Lacto-N-tetraose (Gal(β1-3)GlcNAc(β1-3)Gal(β1-4)Glc) is one of the most abundant oligosaccharide structures in human milk. We recently described the synthesis of lacto-N-tetraose by a whole-cell biotransformation with recombinant Escherichia coli cells. However, only about 5% of the lactose was converted into lacto-N-tetraose by this approach. The major product obtained was the intermediate lacto-N-triose II (GlcNAc(β1-3)Gal(β1-4)Glc).In order to improve the bioconversion of lactose to lacto-N-tetraose, we have investigated the influence of the carbon source on the formation of lacto-N-tetraose and on the intracellular availability of the glycosyltransferase substrates, UDP-N-acetylglucosamine and UDP-galactose. By growth of the recombinant E. coli cells on D-galactose, the yield of lacto-N-tetraose (810.8 mg L⁻¹ culture) was 3.6-times higher compared to cultivation on D-glucose.Using fed-batch cultivation with galactose as sole energy and carbon source, a large-scale synthesis of lacto-N-tetraose was demonstrated. During the 26 h feeding phase the growth rate (μ = 0.05) was maintained by an exponential galactose feed. In total, 16 g L⁻¹ lactose were fed and resulted in final yields of 12.72 ± 0.21 g L⁻¹ lacto-N-tetraose and 13.70 ± 0.10 g L⁻¹ lacto-N-triose II. In total, 173 g of lacto-N-tetraose were produced with a space-time yield of 0.37 g L⁻¹ h⁻¹.