Abstract
Recombinant protein production is often influenced by the stability of plasmid carrying the cloned gene and the final biomass yield. Ovine (sheep) interferon-λ (oIFNλ) has been expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under the regulation of a hybrid alcohol dehydrogenase 2/glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase promoter. The influence of media composition on growth rate, biomass yield, plasmid stability and oIFNλ were studied. In a selective medium, with leucine and uracil selection, the plasmid stability was good but the yeast failed to grow to high cell densities. In 60-l fermentations, oIFNλ yields of 49 mg/l were achieved for complex media and about 3.4 mg/l for casamino acids with uracil selection based on bioassay. A fraction of the protein was insoluble and was solubilized by 6 M guanidine hydrochloride.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 565-569 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1996 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Biotechnology
- Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology