Engineering the Oxygen Sensing Regulation Results in an Enhanced Recombinant Human Hemoglobin Production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2015

Efficient production of appropriate oxygen carriers for transfusions (blood substitutes or artificial blood) has been pursued for many decades, and to date several strategies have been used, from synthetic polymers to cell-free hemoglobin carriers. The recent advances in the field of metabolic engineering also allowed the generation of different genetically modified organisms for the production of recombinant human hemoglobin. Several studies have showed very promising results using the bacterium Escherichia coli as a production platform, reporting hemoglobin titers above 5% of the total cell protein content. However, there are still certain limitations regarding the protein stability and functionality of the recombinant hemoglobin produced in bacterial systems. In order to overcome these limitations, yeast systems have been proposed as the eukaryal alternative. We recently reported the generation of a set of plasmids to produce functional human hemoglobin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with final titers of active hemoglobin exceeding 4% of the total cell protein. In this study, we propose a strategy for further engineering S. cerevisiae by altering the oxygen sensing pathway by deleting the transcription factor HAP1, which resulted in an increase of the final recombinant active hemoglobin titer exceeding 7% of the total cellular protein.

human hemoglobin

HAP1

heme biosynthesis

HEM13

protein production

Författare

Jose Luis Martinez Ruiz

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

Lifang Liu

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

Dina Petranovic Nielsen

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

Jens B Nielsen

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

0006-3592 (ISSN) 1097-0290 (eISSN)

Vol. 112 1 181-188

Industrial Systems Biology of Yeast and A. oryzae (INSYSBIO)

Europeiska kommissionen (EU) (EC/FP7/247013), 2010-01-01 -- 2014-12-31.

Styrkeområden

Livsvetenskaper och teknik (2010-2018)

Ämneskategorier

Bioinformatik och systembiologi

DOI

10.1002/bit.25347

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2017-10-07