title: Tuning microbial hosts for membrane protein production.
abstract: The last four years have brought exciting progress in membrane protein research. Finally those many efforts that have been put into expression of eukaryotic membrane proteins are coming to fruition and enable to solve an ever-growing number of high resolution structures. In the past, many skilful optimization steps were required to achieve sufficient expression of functional membrane proteins. Optimization was performed individually for every membrane protein, but provided insight about commonly encountered bottlenecks and, more importantly, general guidelines how to alleviate cellular limitations during microbial membrane protein expression. Lately, system-wide analyses are emerging as powerful means to decipher cellular bottlenecks during heterologous protein production and their use in microbial membrane protein expression has grown in popularity during the past months.This review covers the most prominent solutions and pitfalls in expression of eukaryotic membrane proteins using microbial hosts (prokaryotes, yeasts), highlights skilful applications of our basic understanding to improve membrane protein production. Omics technologies provide new concepts to engineer microbial hosts for membrane protein production.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14, 8010 Graz, Austria. maria.freigassner@gmail.com
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Freigassner
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pichler
authors.forename: Anton
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Glieder
mesh_terms: D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D018832:Molecular Chaperones / Q000378:metabolism; D015202:Protein Engineering; D017510:Protein Folding; D014178:Translocation, Genetic; D015003:Yeasts / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development
chemical_list: D008565:Membrane Proteins; D018832:Molecular Chaperones