Abstract:
The impact of cultivation temperature on the physiology and productivity of porcine insulin precursor (PIP) protein secreting P. pastoris strains was investigated. The multicopy PIP producing P. pastoris strains A2 and A3 were cultivated at 25 ℃ and 30 ℃. Compared with those at 30 ℃, PIP production of A2 and A3 at 25 ℃ was increased by 40% and 32%, respectively. The viability of recombinant A3 cells was increased by 20%, and the transcriptional levels of KAR2, PDI1, GLR, and TRR1 in A3 cells were reduced by 16%-35% compared with those cultivated at 30 ℃. Thus, protein folding stress and oxidative stress responses in the highcopy strain cells are generally decreased at 25 ℃, leading to a 40% increase in heterologous protein production by multicopy recombinart P. pastoris host cells.