Scale-Up of a High Cell Density Continuous Culture with Pichia pastoris X-33 for the Constitutive Expression of rh-Chitinase
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Abstract
The feasibility of large-scale production of recombinant human chitinase using a constitutive Pichia pastoris expression system was demonstrated in a 21-L continuous stirred tank reactor. A steady-state recombinant protein concentration of 250 mg/L in the supernatant was sustained for 1 month at a dilution rate of 0.042 h(-1) (equivalent to one volume exchange per day), enabling a volumetric productivity of 144 mg/L d (240 U/L d). The steady-state dry cell weight concentration in this high cell density culture reached 110 g/L. Considering safety and economical aspects, all large-scale cultivations were conducted without molecular oxygen supplementation. Conventional air sparging was used instead. The oxygen demand of the process was determined by off-gas analysis (OUR = 4.8 g O(2) L(-1) h(-1) with k(L)a = 846 h(-1)) and evaluated with regard to further reactor scale-up.
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