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BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 114, Issue 8, Pages 1899-1902Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bit.26291
Keywords
metabolic oligosaccharide engineering; sialylation; glycosylation; N-acetylmannosamine (ManNAc) analog; Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) media
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- Maryland Innovation Initiative [2015-MII-1944]
- Willowcroft Foundation
- National Science Foundation [1512265]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1512265] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A desirable feature of many therapeutic glycoprotein production processes is to maximize the final sialic acid content. In this study, the effect of applying a novel chemical analog of the sialic acid precursor N-acetylmannosamine (ManNAc) on the sialic acid content of cellular proteins and a model recombinant glycoprotein, erythropoietin (EPO), was investigated in CHO-K1 cells. By introducing the 1,3,4-O-Bu(3)ManNAc analog at 200-300 mu M into cell culture media, the intracellular sialic acid content of EPO-expressing cells increased approximate to 8-fold over untreated controls while the level of cellular sialylated glycoconjugates increased significantly as well. For example, addition of 200-300 mu M 1,3,4-O-Bu(3)ManNAc resulted in >40% increase in final sialic acid content of recombinant EPO, while natural ManNAc at approximate to 100 times higher concentration of 20mM produced a less profound change in EPO sialylation. Collectively, these results indicate that butyrate-derivatization of ManNAc improves the capacity of cells to incorporate exogenous ManNAc into the sialic acid biosynthetic pathway and thereby increase sialylation of recombinant EPO and other glycoproteins. This study establishes 1,3,4-O-Bu(3)ManNAc as a novel chemical supplement to improve glycoprotein quality and sialylation levels at concentrations orders of magnitude lower than alternative approaches. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2017;114: 1899-1902. (c) 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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