Title |
Production of a modified peptide clavanin in Pichia pastoris: cloning, expression, purification and in vitro activities
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Published in |
AMB Express, August 2015
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DOI | 10.1186/s13568-015-0129-0 |
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Authors |
Kelly Cristina Mulder, Loiane Alves de Lima, Priscilla Santos Aguiar, Fábio Correa Carneiro, Octávio Luiz Franco, Simoni Campos Dias, Nádia Skorupa Parachin |
Abstract |
Antimicrobial peptides are one of the most promising peptide-based drugs due to their enormous potential as novel biopharmaceuticals in both human and animal industries. In order to develop strategies to over produce such molecules, heterologous production of a modified version of clavanin A, here named clavanin MO (clavMO), was successfully achieved in the methylothopic yeast Pichia pastoris. ClavMO was fused to thioredoxin as a carrier protein and the construction was tested using two promoters, PAOX1 and PGAP, based on either induced or constitutive expression systems, respectively. After growth in 5 L Bioreactor, clavMO-thio was recovered and purified through size exclusion chromatography. Our findings show that both constitutive and inducible expression systems produce active clavMO fused to thioredoxin against both Gram-negative Klebsiella pneumoniae and Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus microorganisms. |
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