Secretory expression of functional barley limit dextrinase by Pichia pastoris using high cell-density fermentation

Heterologous production of large multidomain proteins from higher plants is often cumbersome. Barley limit dextrinase (LD), a 98 kDa multidomain starch and α-limit dextrin debranching enzyme, plays a major role in starch mobilization during seed germination and is possibly involved in starch biosynthesis by trimming of intermediate branched α-glucan structures. Highly active barley LD is obtained by secretory expression during high cell-density fermentation of Pichia pastoris. The LD encoding gene fragment without signal peptide was subcloned in-frame with the Saccharomyces cerevisiae α-factor secretion signal of the P. pastoris vector pPIC9K under control of the alcohol oxidase 1 promoter. Optimization of a fed-batch fermentation procedure enabled efficient production of LD in a 5-L bioreactor, which combined with affinity chromatography on β-cyclodextrin–Sepharose followed by Hiload Superdex 200 gel filtration yielded 34 mg homogenous LD (84% recovery). The identity of the recombinant LD was verified by N-terminal sequencing and by mass spectrometric peptide mapping. A molecular mass of 98 kDa was estimated by SDS–PAGE in excellent agreement with the theoretical value of 97419 Da. Kinetic constants of LD catalyzed pullulan hydrolysis were found to K_m,app = 0.16 ± 0.02 mg/mL and k_cat,app = 79 ± 10 s^?1 by fitting the uncompetitive substrate inhibition Michaelis–Menten equation, which reflects significant substrate inhibition and/or transglycosylation. The resulting catalytic coefficient, k_cat,app/K_m,app = 488 ± 23 mL/(mg s) is 3.5-fold higher than for barley malt LD. Surface plasmon resonance analysis showed α-, β-, and γ-cyclodextrin binding to LD with K_d of 27.2, 0.70, and 34.7 μM, respectively.     

Inactivation of barley limit dextrinase inhibitor by thioredoxin-catalysed disulfide reduction

Barley limit dextrinase (LD) that catalyses hydrolysis of α-1,6 glucosidic linkages in starch-derived dextrins is inhibited by limit dextrinase inhibitor (LDI) found in mature seeds. LDI belongs to the chloroform/methanol soluble protein family (CM-protein family) and has four disulfide bridges and one glutathionylated cysteine. Here, thioredoxin is shown to progressively reduce disulfide bonds in LDI accompanied by loss of activity. A preferential reduction of the glutathionylated cysteine, as indicated by thiol quantification and molecular mass analysis using electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry, was not related to LDI inactivation. LDI reduction is proposed to cause conformational destabilisation leading to loss of function.     

Production of enzymatically active recombinant full-length barley high pI alpha-glucosidase of glycoside family 31 by high cell-density fermentation of Pichia pastoris and affinity purification

Recombinant barley high pI alpha-glucosidase was produced by high cell-density fermentation of Pichia pastoris expressing the cloned full-length gene. The gene was amplified from a genomic clone and exons (coding regions) were assembled by overlap PCR. The resulting cDNA was expressed under control of the alcohol oxidase 1 promoter using methanol induction of P. pastoris fermentation in a Biostat B 5 L reactor. Forty-two milligrams alpha-glucosidase was purified from 3.5 L culture in four steps applying an N-terminal hexa-histidine tag. The apparent molecular mass of the recombinant alpha-glucosidase was 100 kDa compared to 92 kDa of the native barley enzyme. The secreted recombinant enzyme was highly stabile during the 5-day fermentation and had significantly superior specific activity of the enzyme purified previously from barley malt. The kinetic parameters Km, Vmax, and kcat were determined to 1.7 mM, 139 nM x s(-1), and 85 s(-1) using maltose as substrate. This work presents the first production of fully active recombinant alpha-glucosidase of glycoside hydrolase family 31 from higher plants.     

The proteinaceous inhibitor of limit dextrinase in barley and malt

Barley limit dextrinase catalyses hydrolysis of alpha-1,6-D-glucosidic bonds in branched poly- or oligosaccharides from starch. A specific inhibitor of this enzyme is found in mature barley kernels, but disappears after several days of germination. Two forms of this proteinaceous inhibitor, identical in amino acid sequence, have been isolated and characterized. They differ in attachment of cysteine or glutathione to a sulfhydryl group, possibly that of cysteine residue 59 of the inhibitor. They can form a 1:1 complex with limit dextrinase and are believed to interact specifically with the enzyme active site. The inhibitor present in mature barley can effectively reduce enzyme activity in barley germinated for a short time and in commercial malt.     

High-level expression of the native barley alpha-amylase/subtilisin inhibitor in Pichia pastoris

An expression system for high-level expression of the native Hordeum vulgare alpha-amylase/subtilisin inhibitor (BASI) has been developed in Pichia pastoris, using the methanol inducible alcohol oxidase 1 (AOX1) promoter. To optimize expression, two codon-optimized coding regions have been designed and expressed alongside the wild-type coding region. To ensure secretion of the native mature protein, a truncated version of the alpha mating factor secretion signal from Saccharomyces cerevisiae was used. In order to be able to compare expression levels from different clones, single insertion transformants generated by gene replacement of the AOX1 gene was selected by PCR screening. Following methanol induction, expression levels reached 125 mgL(-1) from the wild-type coding region while expression from the two codon-optimized variants reached 65 and 125 mgL(-1), respectively. The protein was purified and characterized by Edman degradation, liquid chromatography mass spectrometry and insoluble blue starch assay, and was shown to possess the same characteristics as wild-type protein purified from barley grains.     

Over-expression of active Candida rugosa lip1 in Pichia pastoris via high cell-density fermentation and its application to resolve racemic ibuprofen

To improve the productivity of Candida rugosa lipase (CRL) and alleviate respiration limitations during high cell-density fermentation, codon-optimized CRL LIP1, and Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb) were co-expressed in Pichia pastoris. The activity of the recombinant strain that expressed LIP1 and VHb from dual promoters, named GS115/9Klip1FZvgb-lip1 ^#1, toward olive oil reached 620?U/mL, which was 1.69-fold greater than that of the recombinant strain GS115/9Klip1 ^#139 (365?U/mL) which only expressed LIP1 from a single promoter, and 1.37-fold greater than that of the recombinant strain GS115/9Klip1FZlip1 ^#39 (450?U/mL), which only expressed LIP1 from two promoters, in shaking flasks. With FM22 as the basic medium and methanol/D-sorbitol (1:1, v/v) as an inducer, the maximum activity of GS115/9Klip1FZvgb-lip1 ^#1 reached 7490?±?379.5?U/mL, which was 2.65-fold greater than that of GS115/9Klip1 ^#139 (2820?±?112?U/mL) and 1.82-fold greater than that of GS115/9Klip1FZlip1 ^#39 (4100?±?205?U/mL) in 10?L fermenters. The conversion ratio (C) and enantiomeric excess (ee_s) of racemic ibuprofen by immobilized CRL LIP1 reached 35.10 and 31.63%, respectively.     

利用毕赤酵母系统直接分泌表达具有活性的谷氨酰胺转胺酶

使用异源表达系统直接分泌表达具有活性的微生物谷氨酰胺转氨酶(Microbial transglutaminase,MTG)是目前最具前景的MTG生产方法之一,但由于产量较低无法实现工业化生产.毕赤酵母是近年来发展出的高效蛋白表达系统.通过采用pro序列与成熟MTG基因共表达的策略,成功地实现了用重组毕赤酵母分泌表达具有活性的茂原链霉菌Streptomyces mobaraense MTG.进一步通过对pro序列和MTG基因拷贝数以及重组酵母培养条件的优化,最终使得MTG在1L发酵罐中高密度发酵的酶活达到7.3 U/mL,为MTG的工业化生产奠定了基础.     

毕赤酵母菌高效表达乙肝表面抗原的研究

目的:筛选高效表达HBsAg的毕赤酵母茵,制备目的蛋白.方法:从已确诊的乙肝病人血清中提取DNA,PCR扩增HBVS基因,将其分别克隆入毕赤酵母胞内表达栽体pPICZA中.构建重组质粒pPICZA-S和pPICZA-SH,经Sac I线性化后,LiCI化学法转化入酵母茵株GS115、X-33、KM71H和SMD1168.结果:诱导表达后的GS115工程茼单位体积的培养基所得的抗原含量最高,诱导培养基中加入0.1%酪蛋氨基酸后,可抑制目的蛋白的水解,有利于目的蛋白的表达,粗略估算表达量为15.3mg/L,最佳收获时间为72 h.结论:经SDS-PAGE和Westcrn-blot分析表明,所得产物为乙肝表面抗原S蛋白.     

Production of recombinant protein in Pichia pastoris by fermentation

This protocol is applicable to recombinant protein expression by small-scale fermentation using the Pichia pastoris expression system. P. pastoris has the capacity to produce large quantities of protein with eukaryotic processing. Expression is controlled by a methanol-inducible promoter, which allows a biomass-generation phase before protein production is initiated. The target protein is secreted directly into a protein-free mineral salt medium, and is relatively easy to purify. The protocol is readily interfaced with expanded bed adsorption for immediate capture and purification of recombinant protein. The setting up of the bioreactor plus the fermentation itself takes 1 wk. Making the master and user seed lots takes approximately 2 wk for each individual clone.     

Characterization of recombinant barley oxalate oxidase expressed by Pichia pastoris

Oxalate oxidase catalyzes the oxidation of oxalate to carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide, making it useful for clinical analysis of oxalate in biological fluids. An artificial gene for barley oxalate oxidase has been used to produce functional recombinant enzyme in a Pichia pastoris heterologous expression system, yielding 250 mg of purified oxalate oxidase from 5 L of fermentation medium. The recombinant oxalate oxidase was expressed as a soluble, hexameric 140 kDa glycoprotein containing 0.2 g-atom Mn/monomer with a specific activity of 10 U/mg, similar to the properties reported for enzyme isolated from barley. No superoxide dismutase activity was detected in the recombinant oxalate oxidase. EPR spectra indicate that the majority of the manganese in the protein is present as Mn(II), and are consistent with the six-coordinate metal center reported in the recent X-ray crystal structure for barley oxalate oxidase. The EPR spectra change when bulky anions such as iodide bind, indicating conversion to a five-coordinate complex. Addition of oxalate perturbs the EPR spectrum of the Mn(II) sites, providing the first characterization of the substrate complex. The optical absorption spectrum of the concentrated protein contains features associated with a minor six-coordinate Mn(III) species, which disappears on addition of oxalate. EPR spin-trapping experiments indicate that carboxylate free radicals (CO2*-) are transiently produced by the enzyme in the presence of oxalate, most likely during reduction of the Mn(III) sites. These features are incorporated into a turnover mechanism for oxalate oxidase.     

Anti-oxidative effect of ribonuclease inhibitor by site-directed mutagenesis and expression in Pichia pastoris

Human placental ribonuclease inhibitor(hRI)is an acidic protein of Mr-50kDa with unusually high contents of leucine and cysteine residues.It is a cytosolic protein that protects cells from the adventitious invasion of pancreatic-type ribonuclease.hRI has 32 cysteine residues,and the oxidative formation of disulfide bonds from those cysteine residues is a rapid cooperative process that inactivates hRI.The most proximal cysteine residues in native hRI are two pairs that are adjacent in sequence.In the present aork,two molecules of alanine substituting for Cys328 and Cys329 were performed by site-directed mutagenesis.The site-mutated RI cDNA was constructed into plasmid pPIC9K and then transformed Pichia pastoris GS115 by electroporation.After colony screening,the bacterium was cultured and the product Was purified with affinity chromatography.The affinity of the recombinant human RI with double site mutation was examined for RNase A and its anti-oxidative effect.Results indicated that there were not many changes in the affinity for RNase A detected when compared with the wild type of RI.But the capacity of anti-oxidative effect increased by 7～9 times.The enhancement in anti-oxidative efrect might be attributed to preventing the formation of disulfide bond between Cys328 and Cys329 and the three dimensional structure of RI was thereby maintained.     

Association of HvLDI with limit dextrinase activity and malt quality in barley

Limit dextrinase (LD) is a unique de-branching enzyme involved in starch mobilization of barley grains during malting, and closely related to malt quality. Genotypic variation of LD activity is controlled by genetic factors and also affected by environmental conditions. Correlation analysis between LD activity and four malt quality parameters showed that LD activity was positively correlated with diastatic power, Kolbach index and the quality of malt extract, while negatively correlated with viscosity. The structure-based association analysis demonstrated that HvLDI, a gene encoding limit dextrinase inhibitor, was a major determinant of LD activity and malt quality. The single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with LD activity could be used in early generation selection for barley breeding.     

费希尔曲霉脂肪酶在毕赤酵母中的优化表达及高密度发酵

【背景】脂肪酶广泛应用于纺织、食品、药品、皮革等工业领域,其在微生物中的异源表达研究进一步促进了脂肪酶产品的生产和应用。【目的】实现来源于费希尔曲霉的脂肪酶在毕赤酵母中的高效异源表达,探究其合适的表达及发酵条件,提高产量,降低成本。【方法】对费希尔曲霉的脂肪酶编码基因进行密码子优化后,应用pPIC9k质粒整合到毕赤酵母GS115基因组上,构建高产脂肪酶Lip605的毕赤酵母工程菌;并通过响应面发酵条件优化、筛选最适伴侣蛋白和高密度发酵相结合的方法,综合提高脂肪酶表达量。【结果】确定高产脂肪酶毕赤酵母工程菌的最优摇瓶发酵产酶条件为:甲醇3.103%(体积比),生物素0.4 mg/L,酵母粉11.5 g/L,酵母基础氮源培养基(yeast nitrogen base,YNB) 13.4 g/L,初始pH 6.4,装液量50 mL/250 mL,转速220 r/min,温度24°C,培养时间40 h。优化后的胞外脂肪酶酶活达到72.34 U/mL,较优化前提高了5.8倍;进一步选择12个伴侣蛋白分别与脂肪酶Lip605进行共表达,其中共表达伴侣蛋白Rpl10(pPICZA-RPL10)效果最佳,可使Lip605表达量进一步提高46.8%;在此基础上,经过10 L发酵罐分批补料的高密度发酵,工程菌株发酵142 h,胞外脂肪酶酶活最高达到680 U/mL,蛋白浓度为15.89 g/L。【结论】应用复合策略有效提高了脂肪酶Lip605在毕赤酵母中的发酵产量,为其进一步工业化生产奠定了良好的基础。     

Efficient expression and purification of recombinant alcohol oxidase in Pichia pastoris

In order to improve the production of alcohol oxidase (AOX), a recombinant Pichia pastoris (P. pastoris) system was constructed by transformation of the plasmid pPIC9K-AOX into P. pastoris GS115. The effects of different expression conditions on alcohol oxidase activity in the culture supernatant were investigated in the shake flask scale. The results showed that the highest extracellular activity (562 U/L) of alcohol oxidase was obtained after 56 h induction with 4% methanol at OD₆₀₀ 1.0 in the medium containing 50 g/L maltose, which is about 4.2 folds higher than previously reported. High-purity functional recombinant AOX (>90%) was purified from the culture with the Ni-NTA affinity column and Sephadex G-100 chromatographical methods, with a total recovery rate of 68.9%. Further studies showed that the purified rAOX had similar enzymatic characteristics as the native enzyme, except that the thermal stability and resistance to H₂O₂ inhibition of rAOX were significantly greater compared to the previous report. The purified rAOX was well tolerant to various water-miscible organic solvents. This efficient expression and purification process will be promising for large-scale production of rAOX as an important diagnostic enzyme for alcohol detection in many areas.     

High-level secretory expression of immunologically active intact antibody from the yeast Pichia pastoris

We have produced a functional murine antibody to dioxin in the culture medium of the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris. Complementary DNA copies encoding the light () and heavy () chains of the dioxin monoclonal antibody, DD1, were each placed under the control of P.pastoris alcohol oxidase (AOX1) promoter and Saccharomyces cerevisiae -mating factor secretion signal sequence. The resulting expression cassettes were assembled into a single plasmid (pPICZDD1) to permit co-expression of both light and heavy chains of the antibody molecule. P.pastoris SMD1168 (pep4, his4) transformed with pPICZDD1 was able to secrete intact antibody into the culture medium. As high as 36 mg l^–1 of the antibody was produced in shake-flask cultures after 96-h induction with methanol. Functional analysis using immunoassay confirmed murine nature of the recombinant antibody and its ability to bind dioxin.     

Continuous beer fermentation by high cell-density culture of bottom brewer's yeast

Continuous beer production was investigated in a high cell-density culture system which consisted of two stages for the fermentation and sedimentation of yeast cells. The continuous culture was carried out for a fermentation time of 5,500 h without contamination, at varying dilution rates and fermentation temperatures in the ranges of 0.017-0.033 h⁻¹ and 6.5–8.5°C, respectively. This process was found to be suitable for continuous and stable beer brewing. Under these conditions, the cell concentration in the first stage was about 80 times as high as that in the exit of the second stage. Concentrations of viable cells, sugar and ethanol were maintained at 1.3 × 10⁹ cells/ml, 25 and 36 g/l, respectively, and were hardly affected by fermentation temperature. Concentrations of ethyl acetate, isoamyl alcohol and isoamyl acetate were similar in the fermentation temperature ranges of 6.5–8.5°C, and the amounts at a fermentation temperature of 7°C were comparable to those of lager-type beer. Diacetyl flavor, which is known to be an effluent component that causes deterioration in the second stag e (young beer), was maintained at 1.2 ppm at a dilution rate and fermentation temperature of 0.022 h⁻¹ and 7°C, respectively. The diacetyl flavor was due to the accumulation of vicinal diketone, the precursor of which is acetohydroxy acid. The acetohydroxy acid was converted to vicinal diketone by pretreatment at 60°C for 30 min. The vicinal diketone was then consumed by the yeast during after-fermentation at a fermentation temperature of 3°C. Using this method, total vicinal diketone decreased below 0.3 ppm for an after-fermentation time of 6.8 h, which was 225 times as fast as that of after-fermentation without the pretreatment. This process may make it possible to achieve continuous beer fermentation from the fermentation stage to after-fermentation for diacetyl removal.     

Efficient expression of the anti-AahI' scorpion toxin nanobody under a new functional form in a Pichia pastoris system

Most large-scale microbial production of recombinant proteins are based on Escherichia coli, yeasts, or filamentous fungi systems. Using eukaryotic hosts, antibody fragments are generally expressed by targeting to the secretory pathway. This enables not only efficient disulfide bond formation but also secretion of soluble and correctly folded product. For this goal, a recombinant vector was constructed to produce a single-domain antibody (NbAahI'22) directed against AahI' scorpion toxin using the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris. The corresponding complementary DNA was cloned under control of the alcohol oxidase promoter in frame with the Saccharomyces α-factor secretion signal and then transferred to P. pastoris cell strain X-33. Using Western blot, we detected the expression of the recombinant NbAahI'22 exclusively in the culture medium. Targeting to the histidine label, the secreted nanobody was easily purified on nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid resin and then tested in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Interestingly, the production level of the NbAahI'22 in its new glycosylated form reached more than sixfold that obtained in E. coli. These findings give more evidence for the utilization of P. pastoris as a heterologous expression system.     

人血管内皮细胞生长抑制因子在巴斯德毕赤酵母中的分泌表达

血管内皮细胞生长抑制因子抑制肿瘤部位新生血管的形成,切断肿瘤细胞营养供应及废物排泄通道,抑制肿瘤细胞恶性增殖。将编码成熟的人血管内皮细胞生长抑制因子基因克隆到表达载体pPICZα中,电转化P.pastorisGS115菌株,抗生素ZeocinTM浓度梯度筛选高抗性转化子,PCR筛选阳性重组菌株。经表型鉴定后,用甲醇进行诱导表达,SDS-PAGE和Western印迹杂交结果证实了表达产物为重组人血管内皮细胞生长抑制因子-his6融合蛋白,表达量约为5mg/L。经细胞毒性试验测定,表达产物对人脐静脉内皮细胞HUVEC增殖具有较明显的抑制作用。