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Pichia pastoris

About: Pichia pastoris is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 7937 publications have been published within this topic receiving 162645 citations. The topic is also known as: Komagataella pastoris.


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TL;DR: Results suggest that steps after the transition state, possibly involved in release of MgADP, are severely impaired in these mutant enzymes.
Abstract: Mutagenesis was used to investigate the functional role of six pairs of aspartate and glutamate residues (D450/D1093, E482/E1125, E552/E1197, D558/D1203, D592/D1237, and E604/E1249) that are highly conserved in the nucleotide binding sites of P-glycoprotein (Mdr3) and of other ABC transporters. Removal of the charge in E552Q/E1197Q and D558N/D1203N produced proteins with severely impaired biological activity when the proteins were analyzed in yeast cells for cellular resistance to FK506 and restoration of mating in a ste6Δ mutant. Mutations at other acidic residues had no apparent effect in the same assays. These four mutants were expressed in Pichia pastoris, purified to homogeneity, and biochemically characterized with respect to ATPase activity. Studies with purified proteins showed that mutants D558N and D1203N retained 14 and 30% of the drug-stimulated ATPase activity of wild-type (WT) Mdr3, respectively, and vanadate trapping of 8-azido[α-32P]nucleotide confirmed slower basal and drug-stimulated 8-a...

82 citations

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TL;DR: Lactic acid accumulated during the induction phase and did not interfere with angiostatin production, indicating that lactic acid to be a non-repressive carbon source.

82 citations

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TL;DR: Three methanol addition strategies were evaluated for the purpose of optimizing recombinant endostatin production, with the growth control strategy not only more efficient but also more convenient for downstream processing.
Abstract: Pichia pastoris, a methylotrophic yeast, is an efficient producer of recombinant proteins in which the heterologous gene is under the control of the methanol-induced AOX1 promoter. Hence, the accepted production procedure has two phases: In the first phase, the yeast utilizes glycerol and biomass is accumulated; in the second phase, the yeast utilizes methanol which is used both as an inducer for the expression of the recombinant protein and as a carbon source. Since the yeast is sensitive to methanol concentration, the methanol is supplied gradually to the growing culture. Three methanol addition strategies were evaluated for the purpose of optimizing recombinant endostatin production. Two strategies were based on the yeast metabolism; one responding to the methanol consumption using a methanol sensor, and the other responding to the oxygen consumption. In these two strategies, the methanol supply is unlimited. The third strategy was based on a predetermined exponential feeding rate, controling the growth rate at 0.02 h -1 , in this strategy the methanol supply is limited. Throughout the induction phase glycerol, in addition to methanol, was continuously added at a rate of 1 g L h -1 . Total endostatin production was similar in all three strategies, (400 mg was obtained from 3 L initial volume), but the amount of methanol added and the biomass produced were lower in the predetermined rate method. This caused the specific production of endostatin per biomass and per methanol to be 2 times higher in the predetermined rate than in the other two methods, making the growth control strategy not only more efficient but also more convenient for downstream processing.

82 citations

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TL;DR: Recombinant ROL lipase was purified to homogeneity by a simple two-step purification procedure and had a specific activity of 8571 U mg-1 (triolein, 30 degrees C, pH 8.1) which is comparable with the purified native enzyme.

81 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023150
2022340
2021255
2020303
2019374
2018401