Yeast synthetic biology for designed cell factories producing secretory recombinant proteins

EJ Thak, SJ Yoo, HY Moon, HA Kang - FEMS yeast research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Yeasts are prominent hosts for the production of recombinant proteins from industrial
enzymes to therapeutic proteins. Particularly, the similarity of protein secretion pathways …

Advances in Metabolic Engineering of Pichia pastoris Strains as Powerful Cell Factories

J Zha, D Liu, J Ren, Z Liu, X Wu - Journal of Fungi, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pichia pastoris is the most widely used microorganism for the production of secreted
industrial proteins and therapeutic proteins. Recently, this yeast has been repurposed as a …

An improved secretion signal enhances the secretion of model proteins from Pichia pastoris

JJ Barrero, JC Casler, F Valero, P Ferrer, BS Glick - Microbial cell factories, 2018 - Springer
Background Proteins can be secreted from a host organism with the aid of N-terminal
secretion signals. The budding yeast Pichia pastoris (Komagataella sp.) is widely employed …

Avoiding entry into intracellular protein degradation pathways by signal mutations increases protein secretion in Pichia pastoris

Y Ito, M Ishigami, N Hashiba, Y Nakamura… - Microbial …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In our previous study, we serendipitously discovered that protein secretion in the
methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris is enhanced by a mutation (V50A) in the mating factor …

An intron-derived motif strongly increases gene expression from transcribed sequences through a splicing independent mechanism in Arabidopsis thaliana

JE Gallegos, AB Rose - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Certain introns significantly increase mRNA accumulation by a poorly understood
mechanism. These introns have no effect when located upstream, or more than~ 1 Kb …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae for application in integrated bioprocessing biorefineries

LS Minnaar, F Kruger, J Fortuin, LJ Hoffmeester… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Consolidated bioprocessing conversion of cellulose to ethanol is not yet
viable.•The low value of energy products has shifted the focus to higher-value commodities.• …

Codon pair optimization (CPO): a software tool for synthetic gene design based on codon pair bias to improve the expression of recombinant proteins in Pichia …

Y Huang, T Lin, L Lu, F Cai, J Lin, Y Jiang, Y Lin - Microbial Cell Factories, 2021 - Springer
Background Codon optimization is a common method to improve protein expression levels
in Pichia pastoris and the current strategy is to replace rare codons with preferred codons to …

A Combinational Strategy for Effective Heterologous Production of Functional Human Lysozyme in Pichia pastoris

H He, S Wu, M Mei, J Ning, C Li, L Ma… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Human lysozyme (hLYZ), known for its bacteriolytic activity, is widely applied in the food and
pharmaceutical industries as an antimicrobial agent. However, its extensive application was …

Bioreactor-scale cell performance and protein production can be substantially increased by using a secretion signal that drives co-translational translocation in Pichia …

JJ Barrero, A Pagazartaundua, BS Glick, F Valero… - New biotechnology, 2021 - Elsevier
Pichia pastoris (Komagataella spp.) has become one of the most important host organisms
for production of heterologous proteins of biotechnological interest, many of them …

Alternative secretory signal sequences for recombinant protein production in Pichia pastoris

M Karaoğlan - Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Extracellular protein production is primarily preferred to facilitate the downstream processes
in recombinant protein production. Secretion of recombinant proteins is mediated by the …