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ReviewApplied microbiology and biotechnology2014

Protein expression in Pichia pastoris: recent achievements and perspectives for heterologous protein production.

Mudassar Ahmad, Melanie Hirz, Harald Pichler, Helmut Schwab

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Review in Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 379 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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379citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
27.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

379 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 976 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mudassar AhmadInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 14/5, 8010, Graz, Austria.
Melanie Hirz
Harald Pichler
Helmut Schwab
Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (Austria) · ATGraz University of Technology · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pichia pastoris is an established protein expression host mainly applied for the production of biopharmaceuticals and industrial enzymes. This methylotrophic yeast is a distinguished production system for its growth to very high cell densities, for the available strong and tightly regulated promoters, and for the options to produce gram amounts of recombinant protein per litre of culture both intracellularly and in secretory fashion. However, not every protein of interest is produced in or secreted by P. pastoris to such high titres. Frequently, protein yields are clearly lower, particularly if complex proteins are expressed that are hetero-oligomers, membrane-attached or prone to proteolytic degradation. The last few years have been particularly fruitful because of numerous activities in improving the expression of such complex proteins with a focus on either protein engineering or on engineering the protein expression host P. pastoris. This review refers to established tools in protein expression in P. pastoris and highlights novel developments in the areas of expression vector design, host strain engineering and screening for high-level expression strains. Breakthroughs in membrane protein expression are discussed alongside numerous commercial applications of P. pastoris derived proteins.

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Gene ExpressionIndustrial MicrobiologyPichiaRecombinant ProteinsRecombinant Proteins

Identifiers

PMID24743983
PMCPMC4047484
OpenAlexW2046437093

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