title: Production of wild-type and peptide fusion cutinases by recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae MM01 strains.
abstract: This study focused on the growth of Saccha-romyces cerevisiae MM01 recombinant strains and the respective production of three extracellular heterologous cutinases: a wild-type cutinase and two cutinases in which the primary structure was fused with the peptides (WP)(2) and (WP)(4), respectively. Different cultivation and strategies were tested in a 2-L shake flask and a 5-L bioreactor, and the respective cell growth and cutinase production were analyzed and compared for the three yeast strains. The highest cutinase productions and productivities were obtained in the fed-batch culture, where wild-type cutinase was secreted up to a level of cutinase activity per dry cell weight (specific cell activity) of 4.1 Umg(-1) with activity per protein broth (specific activity) of 266 Umg(-1), whereas cutinase-(WP)(2) was secreted with a specific cell activity of 2.1 Umg(-1) with a specific activity of 200 Umg(-1), and cutinase-(WP)(4) with a specific cell activity of 0.7 Umg(-1) with a specific activity of 15 Umg(-1). The results indicate that the fusion of hydrophobic peptides to cutinase that changes the physical properties of the fused protein limits cutinase secretion and subsequently leads to a lower plasmid stability and lower yeast cell growth. These effects were observed under different cultivation conditions (shake flask and bioreactor) and cultivation strategies (batch culture versus fed-batch culture).
authors: Centro de Engenharia Biológica e Química, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal.
authors: Cecília R C
authors: CR
authors: Calado
authors: Maurice
authors: M
authors: Mannesse
authors: Maarten
authors: M
authors: Egmond
authors: Joaquim M S
authors: JM
authors: Cabral
authors: Luis P
authors: LP
authors: Fonseca
mesh_terms: D019149:Bioreactors; D002265:Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D010455:Peptides; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D002265:Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases; C019952:cutinase