Increasing cell biomass in Saccharomyces cerevisiae increases recombinant protein yield: the use of a respiratory strain as a microbial cell factory.

Background: Recombinant protein production is universally employed as a solution to obtain the milligram to gram quantities of a given protein required for applications as diverse as structural genomics and biopharmaceutical manufacture. Yeast is a well-established recombinant host cell for these purposes. In this study we wanted to investigate whether our respiratory Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain, TM6*, could be used to enhance the productivity of recombinant proteins over that obtained from corresponding wild type, respiro-fermentative strains when cultured under the same laboratory conditions.

Transcriptome analysis of a respiratory Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain suggests the expression of its phenotype is glucose insensitive and predominantly controlled by Hap4, Cat8 and Mig1.

Background: We previously described the first respiratory Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain, KOY.TM6*P, by integrating the gene encoding a chimeric hexose transporter, Tm6*, into the genome of an hxt null yeast. Subsequently we transferred this respiratory phenotype in the presence of up to 50 g/L glucose to a yeast strain, V5 hxt1-7Delta, in which only HXT1-7 had been deleted.

Characterization of glucose transport mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae during a nutritional upshift reveals a correlation between metabolite levels and glycolytic flux.

Saccharomyces cerevisiae shows a marked preference for glucose and fructose, revealed by the repression of genes whose products are involved in processing other carbon sources. This response seems to be driven by sugar phosphorylation in the first steps of glycolysis rather than by the external sugar concentration. To gain a further insight into the role of the internal sugar signalling mechanisms, were measured the levels of upper intracellular glycolytic metabolites and adenine nucleotides in three mutant strains, HXT1, HXT7 and TM6*, with progressively reduced uptake capacities in comparison with the wild type.