Improving the batch-to-batch reproducibility in microbial cultures during recombinant protein production by guiding the process along a predefined total biomass profile

Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering - Tập 29 - Trang 315-321 - 2006
Marco Jenzsch1, Stefan Gnoth1, Martin Kleinschmidt2, Rimvydas Simutis3, Andreas Lübbert1
1Zentrum für Bioverfahrenstechnik, Martin-Luther-Universitaet, Halle (Saale), Germany
2Protein Research, Probiodrug AG, Halle (Saale), Germany
3Institute of Automation and Control Systems, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania

Tóm tắt

In industry Escherichia coli is the preferred host system for the heterologous biosynthesis of therapeutic proteins that do not need posttranslational modifications. In this report, the development of a robust high-cell-density fed-batch procedure for the efficient production of a therapeutic hormone is described. The strategy is to guide the process along a predefined profile of the total biomass that was derived from a given specific growth rate profile. This profile might have been built upon experience or derived from numerical process optimization. A surprisingly simple adaptive procedure correcting for deviations from the desired path was developed. In this way the batch-to-batch reproducibility can be drastically improved as compared to the process control strategies typically applied in industry. This applies not only to the biomass but, as the results clearly show, to the product titer also.

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