Abstract
Hydrophobins are proteins produced by filamentous fungi with high natural-surfactant activities and that can self-assemble in interfaces of air–water or solid–water to form amphiphilic membranes. Here, we reported a high-yield fermentation method for hydrophobin HGFI from Grifola frondosa in Pichia pastoris, attaining production of 300 mg/L by keeping the dissolved oxygen level at 15%–25% by turning the methanol-feeding speed. We also developed a novel HGFI-purification method enabling large-scare purification of HGFI, with >90% recovery. Additionally, we observed that hydrophobin HGFI in fermentation broth precipitated at pH < 7.0 and temperatures >90 °C. We also identified the structure and properties of proteins purified by this method through atomic force microscopy, circular dichroism, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and water-contact angle measurement, which is similar to protein purification by ultrafiltration without heating treatment that enables our method to maintain native HGFI structure and properties. Furthermore, the purification method presented here can be applied to large-scale purification of other type I hydrophobins.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 22-28 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION |
Volume | 128 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2016 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- Characterization
- Fed-batch fermentation
- Hydrophobin HGFI
- Purification
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