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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2011

Self-inducible Bacillus subtilis expression system for reliable and inexpensive protein production by high-cell-density fermentation.

Marian Wenzel, Alexander Müller, Martin Siemann-Herzberg, Josef Altenbuchner

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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4 authors.

Marian WenzelInstitut für Industrielle Genetik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
Alexander Müller
Martin Siemann-Herzberg
Josef Altenbuchner

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Abstract

A novel technically compliant expression system was developed for heterologous protein production in Bacillus subtilis with the aim of increasing product yields at the same time as decreasing production costs. Standard systems involve the positively regulated manP promoter of the mannose operon, which led to relatively high product yields of 5.3% (5.3 g enhanced green fluorescent protein [eGFP] per 100 g cell dry weight [CDW]) but required large quantities of mannose to induce the reactions, thus rendering the system's technical application rather expensive. To improve this situation, mutant B. subtilis strains were used: the ΔmanA (mannose metabolism) strain TQ281 and the ΔmanP (mannose uptake) strain TQ356. The total amount of inducer could be reduced with TQ281, which, however, displayed sensitivity to mannose. An inducer-independent self-induction system was developed with TQ356 to further improve the cost efficiency and product yield of the system, in which glucose prevents induction by carbon catabolite repression. To create optimal self-induction conditions, a glucose-limited process strategy, namely, a fed-batch process, was utilized as follows. The initiation of self-induction at the beginning of the glucose-restricted transition phase between the batch and fed-batch phase of fermentation and its maintenance throughout the glucose-limiting fed-batch phase led to a nearly 3-fold increase of product yield, to 14.6%. The novel B. subtilis self-induction system thus makes a considerable contribution to improving product yield and reducing the costs associated with its technical application.

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Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenetic VectorsBacillus subtilisBiotechnologyFermentationGene DeletionGlucoseMannoseRecombinant ProteinsTranscriptional ActivationGlucoseMannoseRecombinant Proteins

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PMID21803899
PMCPMC3187127

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