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Recombinant production of Paenibacillus wynnii β-galactosidase with Komagataella phaffii
(2024) Bechtel, Anna; Seitl, Ines; Pross, Eva; Hetzel, Frank; Keutgen, Mario; Fischer, Lutz
The β-galactosidase from Paenibacillus wynnii (β-gal-Pw) is a promising candidate for lactose hydrolysis in milk and dairy products, as it has a higher affinity for the substrate lactose (low KM value) compared to industrially used β-galactosidases and is not inhibited by the hydrolysis-generated product D-galactose. However, β-gal-Pw must firstly be produced cost-effectively for any potential industrial application. Accordingly, the yeast Komagataella phaffii was chosen to investigate its feasibility to recombinantly produce β-gal-Pw since it is approved for the regulated production of food enzymes. The aim of this study was to find the most suitable way to produce the β-gal-Pw in K. phaffii either extracellularly or intracellularly.ResultsFirstly, 11 different signal peptides were tested for extracellular production of β-gal-Pw by K. phaffii under the control of the constitutive GAP promoter. None of the signal peptides resulted in a secretion of β-gal-Pw, indicating problems within the secretory pathway of this enzyme. Therefore, intracellular β-gal-Pw production was investigated using the GAP or methanol-inducible AOX1 promoter. A four-fold higher volumetric β-galactosidase activity of 7537 ± 66 µkatoNPGal/Lculture was achieved by the K. phaffii clone 27 using the AOX1 promoter in fed-batch bioreactor cultivations, compared to the clone 5 using the GAP promoter. However, a two-fold higher specific productivity of 3.14 ± 0.05 µkatoNPGal/gDCW/h was achieved when using the GAP promoter for β-gal-Pw production compared to the AOX1 promoter. After partial purification, a β-gal-Pw enzyme preparation with a total β-galactosidase activity of 3082 ± 98 µkatoNPGal was obtained from 1 L of recombinant K. phaffii culture (using AOX1 promoter).ConclusionThis study showed that the β-gal-Pw was produced intracellularly by K. phaffii, but the secretion was not achieved with the signal peptides chosen. Nevertheless, a straightforward approach to improve the intracellular β-gal-Pw production with K. phaffii by using either the GAP or AOX1 promoter in bioreactor cultivations was demonstrated, offering insights into alternative production methods for this enzyme.
Toward food-grade production of the Glutamicibacter halophytocola diamine oxidase using Komagataella phaffii
(2025) Bechtel, Anna; Kettner, Lucas; Hessenberger, Jan; Vlassakakis, Kenny; Fischer, Lutz; Bechtel, Anna; Department of Biotechnology and Enzyme Science, Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstr. 25, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany; Kettner, Lucas; Department of Biotechnology and Enzyme Science, Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstr. 25, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany; Hessenberger, Jan; Department of Biotechnology and Enzyme Science, Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstr. 25, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany; Vlassakakis, Kenny; Department of Biotechnology and Enzyme Science, Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstr. 25, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany; Fischer, Lutz; Department of Biotechnology and Enzyme Science, Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstr. 25, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany
The diamine oxidase from Glutamicibacter halophytocola (DAO-GH) was recombinantly produced in K. phaffii using the constitutive glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase promoter for methanol-free production. Firstly, K. phaffii clones were generated for intracellular and secretory DAO-GH production that still possessed antibiotic resistance due to the cloning procedure. For intracellular production, a maximum intracellular DAO activity of 15,404 nkat/Lculture was achieved in fed-batch bioreactor cultivations, while for secretory production, the highest extracellular DAO activity of 6,078 nkat/Lculture was achieved using the αMF signal peptide without its EAEA sequence. The intracellularly produced DAO-GH was partially purified in several purification steps with a yield of 80%, a purification factor of about 10 and specific DAO activity of 16.7 nkat/mgprotein. The secretory DAO-GH production resulted in a specific DAO activity of 15.4 nkat/mgprotein already in the cell-free culture supernatant at the end of cultivation without further purification steps. The food industry aims to avoid the use of antimicrobial resistance in enzyme production, therefore, a new cassette plasmid with self-excisable antibiotic resistance markers was constructed for secretory DAO-GH production. The antibiotic-resistance-free K. phaffii clone generated with this plasmid achieved a maximum extracellular DAO activity of 4,770 nkat/Lculture in a fed-batch bioreactor cultivation. The DAO-GH obtained in this cultivation was spray-dried, resulting in a storable powder with 23 nkat/gpowder DAO activity and a water activity value of 0.12. This study demonstrated the secretion of recombinant DAO in a microbial host such as K. phaffii for the first time and provides a strategy for generating antibiotic-resistance-free K. phaffii clones.