Journal
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 117, Issue 7, Pages 2074-2088Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bit.27353
Keywords
feast-famine conditions; heterologous protein; proteome; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; scale-down
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- Innovation Fund Denmark
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- Novo Nordisk STAR Fellowship programme
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Chemostat cultivation mode imposes selective pressure on the cells, which may result in slow adaptation in the physiological state over time. We applied a two-compartment scale-down chemostat system imposing feast-famine conditions to characterize the long-term (100 s of hours) response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to fluctuating glucose availability. A wild-type strain and a recombinant strain, expressing an insulin precursor, were cultured in the scale-down system, and analyzed at the physiological and proteomic level. Phenotypes of both strains were compared with those observed in a well-mixed chemostat. Our results show that S. cerevisiae subjected to long-term chemostat conditions undergoes a global reproducible shift in its cellular state and that this transition occurs faster and is larger in magnitude for the recombinant strain including a significant decrease in the expression of the insulin product. We find that the transition can be completely avoided in the presence of fluctuations in glucose availability as the strains subjected to feast-famine conditions under otherwise constant culture conditions exhibited constant levels of the measured proteome for over 250 hr. We hypothesize possible mechanisms responsible for the observed phenotypes and suggest experiments that could be used to test these mechanisms.
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