中国仓鼠卵巢细胞
分解代谢
生物化学
氨基酸
生物合成
代谢工程
合成代谢
酪氨酸
生物
酶
化学
代谢途径
细胞生物学
细胞生长
受体
作者
Bhanu Chandra Mulukutla,Jeffrey P. Mitchell,Pauline Geoffroy,Cameron Harrington,Manisha Krishnan,Taylor Kalomeris,Caitlin Morris,Lin Zhang,Pamela Pegman,Gregory Walter Hiller
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.ymben.2019.03.001
摘要
Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells in fed-batch cultures are known to consume large amounts of nutrients and divert significant portion of them towards the formation of byproducts, some of which, including lactate and ammonia, are known to be growth inhibitory in nature. A major fraction of these inhibitory metabolites are byproducts or intermediates of amino acid catabolism. Limiting the supply of amino acids has been shown to curtail the production of corresponding inhibitory byproducts resulting in enhanced growth and productivities in CHO cell fed-batch cultures (Mulukutla et al., 2017). In the current study, metabolic engineering of CHO cells was undertaken in order to reduce the biosynthesis of these novel growth inhibitors. Phenylalanine-tyrosine (Phe-Tyr) and branched chain amino acid (BCAA) catabolic pathways were engineered as part of this effort. Four genes that encode enzymes in the Phe-Tyr pathway, which were observed to be minimally expressed in CHO cells, were in turn overexpressed. Metabolically engineered cells were prototrophic to tyrosine and had reduced production of the inhibitory byproducts from Phe-Tyr pathway including 3-phenyllactate and 4-hydroxyphenyllactate. In case of BCAA catabolic pathway, branched chain aminotransferase 1 (BCAT1) gene, which encodes the enzyme that catalyzes the first step in the catabolism of BCAAs, was knocked out in CHO cells. Knockout (KO) of BCAT1 function completely eliminated production of inhibitory byproducts from BCAA catabolic pathway, including isovalerate, isobutyrate and 2-methylbutyrate, resulting in significantly enhanced cell growth and productivities in fed-batch cultures. This study is first of its kind to demonstrate that metabolic engineering of essential amino acid metabolism of CHO cells can significantly improve cell culture process performance.
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