Evidence map›Paper›PMID 26790977›Full record

ArticleScientific reports2016

Scaling-up Fermentation of Pichia pastoris to demonstration-scale using new methanol-feeding strategy and increased air pressure instead of pure oxygen supplement.

Wan-Cang Liu, Ting Gong, Qing-Hua Wang, Xiao Liang, Jing-Jing Chen, Ping Zhu

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Enhanced vitamin BSynthetic and systems biotechnology · 2026
    Article
  6. Article
  7. Yeast Midas' touch: recent advances in the valorisation of methanol by yeasts.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2025
    Review
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. A Cost-EffectiveBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
    Review
  16. Review
  17. Article
  18. Review
  19. Application ofSensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
    Article
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wan-Cang LiuState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines; Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences &Peking Union Medical College, 1 Xian Nong Tan Street, Beijing 100050, P.R. China.
Ting GongState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines; Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences &Peking Union Medical College, 1 Xian Nong Tan Street, Beijing 100050, P.R. China.
Qing-Hua WangKey Laboratory of Biosynthesis of Natural Products of National Health and Family Planning Commission, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences &Peking Union Medical College, 1 Xian Nong Tan Street, Beijing 100050, P.R. China.
Xiao LiangKey Laboratory of Biosynthesis of Natural Products of National Health and Family Planning Commission, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences &Peking Union Medical College, 1 Xian Nong Tan Street, Beijing 100050, P.R. China.
Jing-Jing ChenState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines; Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences &Peking Union Medical College, 1 Xian Nong Tan Street, Beijing 100050, P.R. China.
Ping ZhuState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines; Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences &Peking Union Medical College, 1 Xian Nong Tan Street, Beijing 100050, P.R. China.
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Scaling-up of high-cell-density fermentation (HCDF) of Pichia pastoris from the lab or pilot scale to the demonstration scale possesses great significance because the latter is the final technological hurdle in the decision to go commercial. However, related investigations have rarely been reported. In this paper, we study the scaling-up processes of a recombinant P. pastoris from the pilot (10 to 100-L) to the demonstration (1,000-L) scales, which can be used to convert 7-β-xylosyl-10-deacetyltaxol into 10-deacetyltaxol by the β-xylosidase for semi-synthesis of Taxol. We demonstrated that a pure oxygen supplement can be omitted from the HCDF if the super atmospheric pressure was increased from 0.05 to 0.10 ± 0.05 MPa, and we developed a new methanol feeding biomass-stat strategy (0.035 mL/g/h) with 1% dissolved oxygen and 100 g/L initial induction biomass (dry cell weight). The scaling-up was reproducible, and the best results were obtained from the 1,000-L scale, featuring a shorter induction time and the highest enzyme activities and productions, respectively. The specific growth and specific production rates were also determined. This study lays a solid foundation for the commercial preparation of 10-deacetyltaxol through the recombinant yeast. It also provides a successful paradigm for scaling-up HCDF of P. pastoris to the demonstration scale.

Indexed as

Air PressureFermentationMethanolBatch Cell Culture TechniquesBiomassOxygenPichiaMethanolOxygen

Identifiers

PMID26790977
PMCPMC4726300
OpenAlexW2416116963

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.