Journal
BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages 413-420Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/biot.200900233
Keywords
CalB; Expression cassettes; Methods; Pichia pastoris; Real-time PCR
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- FFG
- Province of Styria
- SFG
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Pichia pastoris is a preferred host for heterologous protein production. Expression cassettes are usually integrated into the genome of this methylotrophic yeast. This manuscript describes a method for fast and reliable gene copy number determinations for P. pastoris expression strains. We believe that gene copy number determinations are important for all researchers working with P. pastoris and also many other research groups using similar gene integration techniques for the transformation of other yeasts. The described method uses real-time PCR to quantify the integrated expression cassettes. Similar methods were employed previously for other host systems such as animal and plant cells but no such method comparing different detection methods and describing details for yeast analysis by quantitative PCR is known to us, especially for methylotrophic yeasts such as P. pastoris. Neglecting gene copy numbers can easily lead to false interpretations of experimental results from codon optimization or promoter studies and co-expression of helper proteins as demonstrated in an application example, which is also described here.
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