Enhancement of human serum albumin production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  • Seo, Dong-Sik (Division of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Choi, Byung-Hyun (Division of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Kang, Whan-Koo (Department of Chemical Engineering, Hannam University) ;
  • Kim, In-Ho (Department of Chemical Engineering, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Hong, Eock-Kee (Division of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Kangwon National University)
  • Published : 2001.11.07

Abstract

Experiments were accomplished to reduce the extent of proteolysis by simply controlling the culture conditions instead of the gene manipulation techniques. L-arginine and L-lysine were chosen as a protease inhibitor analogue With the assumption that they might act as the potential inhibitors against proteases involved in the rHSA proteolysis. The addition of arginine and lysine resulted in a considerable positive effect on the secreted rHSA production level.

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