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High-throughput evolutionary optimization of the induction medium towards recombinant protein production in BY-2 tobacco.

Biotechnology and bioengineering (2020-10-11)
Jan Sadoch, Monika Pyc, Anna Urbanowicz, Adam Iglewski, Radosław Pilarski
ABSTRACT

Bright yellow (BY-2) tobacco cells combined with the XVE chemically inducible system are one of the most promising plant-based platforms for recombinant protein production. This offers a range of benefits, including the separation of the cell growth and heterologous gene expression, lack of risk of infecting the end product with prions and human viruses or appropriate protein glycosylation and folding. However, low protein productivity remains a major obstacle that limits the extensive commercialization of bioproduction in plants. A number of molecular, cell culture and down processing approaches have been made to overcome this problem. Media development for the specific nutritional and hormonal requirements of transgenic plant cells is one of the most efficient cell-culture approaches. We optimized the induction medium towards recombinant protein production in BY-2 and demonstrated the usefulness of evolutionary medium optimization for high-yield protein production in liquid plant cultures. A reliable XVE/GFP model, parallel conducting experiments in a microscale on 96-well plates, and dedicated Gene Game evolutionary optimization software allowed for an effective search of 7611 possible solutions of 11-component media. Within the 4608 formulations tested, the Induct X medium was found with a significant 107.14% increase in protein expression in relation to the standard BY-2 medium.

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