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http://dx.doi.org/10.4014/kjmb.1207.07021

Use of Human Serum Albumin Fusion Tags for Recombinant Protein Secretory Expression in the Methylotrophic Yeast Hansenula polymorpha  

Song, Ji-Hye (Systems and Synthetic Biology Research Center, KRIBB)
Hwang, Dong Hyeon (Systems and Synthetic Biology Research Center, KRIBB)
Oh, Doo-Byoung (Systems and Synthetic Biology Research Center, KRIBB)
Rhee, Sang Ki (Department of Medicinal Biotechnology, Soon Chun Hyang University)
Kwon, Ohsuk (Systems and Synthetic Biology Research Center, KRIBB)
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Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters / v.41, no.1, 2013 , pp. 17-25 More about this Journal
Abstract
The thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha is an attractive model organism for various fundamental studies, such as the genetic control of enzymes involved in methanol metabolism, peroxisome biogenesis, nitrate assimilation, and resistance to heavy metals and oxidative stresses. In addition, H. polymorpha has been highlighted as a promising recombinant protein expression host, especially due to the availability of strong and tightly regulatable promoters. In this study, we investigated the possibility of employing human serum albumin (HSA) as the fusion tag for the secretory expression of heterologous proteins in H. polymorpha. A set of four expression cassettes, which contained the methanol oxidase (MOX) promoter, translational HSA fusion tag, and the terminator of MOX, were constructed. The expression cassettes were also designed to contain sequences for accessory elements including His8-tag, $2{\times}(Gly_4Ser_1)$ linkers, tobacco etch virus protease recognition sites (Tev), multi-cloning sites, and strep-tags. To determine the effects of the size of the HSA fusion tag on the secretory expression of the target protein, each cassette contained the HSA gene fragment truncated at a specific position based on its domain structure. By using the Green fluorescence protein gene as the reporter, the properties of each expression cassette were compared in various conditions. Our results suggest that the translational HSA fusion tag is an efficient tool for the secretory expression of recombinant proteins in H. polymorpha.
Keywords
Hansenula polymorpha; HSA fusion tag; protein secretion; expression system;
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