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JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 85, Issue 1, Pages 41-48Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1656(00)00376-X
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hirudin; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; mitotic stability; delta-integration; copy number
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Recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains were developed to overproduce an anticoagulant hirudin. The delta -sequences of the yeast retrotransposon Ty1 and URA3 were used as target sites for a hirudin expression cassette. High copy-number transformants were successfully selected using a dominant selection antibiotic, G418. The copy numbers of the hirudin expression cassette integrated into F-sequences of the yeast chromosome ranged from five to ten copies per cell. Production of hirudin in the delta -integrated recombinant S. cerevisiae system increased over two-fold compared with the YEp-based episomal hirudin expression system. A linear relationship between the copy number of the hirudin expression cassette and hirudin expression level was observed up to 10 copies. The hirudin expression cassettes integrated into the yeast chromosome were stably maintained in non-selective culture conditions. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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