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1 Citations
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Ulp1 Regulates Cell Proliferation Through INO1 in Pichia pastoris

  • Junjie Yang,
  • Bo Zhong,
  • Lan Yang,
  • Zhan Luo,
  • Lei Jia,
  • Kaixi Zheng,
  • Wenjie Tang,
  • Wenna Shang,
  • Xiaofeng Jiang and
  • Guodong Chen
  • + 3 authors

13 November 2024

Background/Objectives: Ulp1 is a vital regulator of the cell cycle, with its absence leading to G2/M phase arrest in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This study aims to investigate the role of Ulp1 in cell cycle regulation in Pichia pastoris and to elucidat...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Genetics and Genomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
14,474 Views
11 Pages

High-Level Expression of Recombinant Bovine Lactoferrin in Pichia pastoris with Antimicrobial Activity

  • Blanca Iglesias-Figueroa,
  • Norberto Valdiviezo-Godina,
  • Tania Siqueiros-Cendón,
  • Sugey Sinagawa-García,
  • Sigifredo Arévalo-Gallegos and
  • Quintín Rascón-Cruz

In this study, bovine lactoferrin (bLf), an iron-binding glycoprotein considered an important nutraceutical protein because of its several properties, was expressed in Pichia pastoris KM71-H under AOX1 promoter control, using pJ902 as the recombinant...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Molecular Research of Functional and Nutraceutical Food)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,713 Views
20 Pages

Efficient Secretory Expression for Mammalian Hemoglobins in Pichia pastoris

  • Chenyang Li,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Zhengshan Luo,
  • Jingwen Zhou,
  • Jianghua Li,
  • Jian Chen,
  • Guocheng Du and
  • Xinrui Zhao

Mammalian hemoglobins (HB) are a kind of heme-binding proteins that play crucial physiological roles in various organisms. The traditional techniques employed for the extraction of HB are expensive and time-consuming, while the yields of mammalian HB...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Fermentation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,451 Views
17 Pages

Study on the High-Efficiency Expression of Horseradish Peroxidase in Pichia pastoris

  • Yaping Wang,
  • Yidan Jing,
  • Weizhen Li,
  • Yuqing Wang,
  • Fei Li,
  • Yimin Qiu and
  • Ben Rao

12 November 2025

Horseradish peroxidase (HRP) is a heme-containing oxidoreductase with extensive applications in biotechnology, medical diagnostics, and environmental protection. In this study, Pichia pastoris was utilized to produce HRP. Successfully, expression str...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Biology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
20,021 Views
19 Pages

19 October 2023

Pichia pastoris is the most widely used microorganism for the production of secreted industrial proteins and therapeutic proteins. Recently, this yeast has been repurposed as a cell factory for the production of chemicals and natural products. In thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development and Utilization of Yeast Resources)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,897 Views
20 Pages

Enzymatic depolymerisation is increasingly recognised as a reliable and environmentally friendly method. The development of this technology hinges on the availability of high-quality enzymes and associated bioreaction systems for upscaling biodegrada...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,375 Views
14 Pages

Optimisation of Recombinant Myrosinase Production in Pichia pastoris

  • Zuzana Rosenbergová,
  • Kristína Kántorová,
  • Martin Šimkovič,
  • Albert Breier and
  • Martin Rebroš

Myrosinase is a plant defence enzyme catalysing the hydrolysis of glucosinolates, a group of plant secondary metabolites, to a range of volatile compounds. One of the products, isothiocyanates, proved to have neuroprotective and chemo-preventive prop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enzymes as Biocatalysts: Current Research Trends and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,543 Views
21 Pages

29 June 2023

This paper introduces a novel soft sensor modeling method based on BDA-IPSO-LSSVM designed to address the issue of model failure caused by varying fermentation data distributions resulting from different operating conditions during the fermentation o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Soft Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,908 Views
14 Pages

Engineered Production of Isobutanol from Sugarcane Trash Hydrolysates in Pichia pastoris

  • Pornsiri Bumrungtham,
  • Peerada Promdonkoy,
  • Kanoknart Prabmark,
  • Benjarat Bunterngsook,
  • Katewadee Boonyapakron,
  • Sutipa Tanapongpipat,
  • Verawat Champreda and
  • Weerawat Runguphan

25 July 2022

Concerns over climate change have led to increased interest in renewable fuels in recent years. Microbial production of advanced fuels from renewable and readily available carbon sources has emerged as an attractive alternative to the traditional pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Yeast Biorefineries)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,718 Views
12 Pages

Improved Production of Recombinant Myrosinase in Pichia pastoris

  • Zuzana Rosenbergová,
  • Zuzana Hegyi,
  • Miroslav Ferko,
  • Natália Andelová and
  • Martin Rebroš

2 November 2021

The effect of the deletion of a 57 bp native signal sequence, which transports the nascent protein through the endoplasmic reticulum membrane in plants, on improved AtTGG1 plant myrosinase production in Pichia pastoris was studied. Myrosinase was ext...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biotechnological Application of Carbohydrate Active Enzymes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,400 Views
14 Pages

Genome-Wide Landscape of Position Effect Variegation in Pichia pastoris

  • Xueyan Yao,
  • Baosong Chen,
  • Zhihui Zhang,
  • Wenyan Gao,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Yongpeng Yao,
  • Yuanyuan Pan and
  • Gang Liu

12 February 2026

Exogenous genes are generally expressed by integration into the chromosomes of Pichia pastoris. However, systematic studies on the chromosomal position effect are lacking, and locations that are conducive to the high expression of foreign genes are r...

(This article belongs to the Section Fungal Genomics, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,257 Views
17 Pages

The Expression of Antibacterial Peptide Turgencin A in Pichia pastoris and an Analysis of Its Antibacterial Activity

  • Chunming Dong,
  • Mengru Li,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Weitao Lu,
  • Lijun Xu,
  • Jian Liu and
  • Xinlei Chu

14 July 2023

Antibiotic resistance to pathogenic bacteria is becoming an increasing public health threat, and identifying alternatives to antibiotics would be an effective solution to the problem of drug resistance. Antimicrobial peptides are small peptides produ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
139 Citations
23,511 Views
23 Pages

Industrial Production of Proteins with Pichia pastoris—Komagataella phaffii

  • Giovanni Davide Barone,
  • Anita Emmerstorfer-Augustin,
  • Antonino Biundo,
  • Isabella Pisano,
  • Paola Coccetti,
  • Valeria Mapelli and
  • Andrea Camattari

26 February 2023

Since the mid-1960s, methylotrophic yeast Komagataella phaffii (previously described as Pichia pastoris) has received increasing scientific attention. The interest for the industrial production of proteins for different applications (e.g., feed,...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomacromolecules: Proteins, Nucleic Acids and Carbohydrates)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,389 Views
18 Pages

Engineering Flocculation for Improved Tolerance and Production of d-Lactic Acid in Pichia pastoris

  • Kittapong Sae-Tang,
  • Pornsiri Bumrungtham,
  • Wuttichai Mhuantong,
  • Verawat Champreda,
  • Sutipa Tanapongpipat,
  • Xin-Qing Zhao,
  • Chen-Guang Liu and
  • Weerawat Runguphan

27 March 2023

d-lactic acid, a chiral organic acid, can enhance the thermal stability of polylactic acid plastics. Microorganisms such as the yeast Pichia pastoris, which lack the natural ability to produce or accumulate high amounts of d-lactic acid, have been me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development and Utilization of Yeast Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,071 Views
19 Pages

9 May 2024

This paper proposes a novel soft sensor modeling approach, MIC-TCA-INGO-LSSVM, to address the decline in performance of soft sensor models during the fermentation process of Pichia pastoris, caused by changes in working conditions. Initially, the tra...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,432 Views
12 Pages

Heterologous Expression and Functional Analysis of Exiguobacterium Algin Lyase Gene by Pichia pastoris

  • Hanwen Wu,
  • Kai Hou,
  • Yutong Jiang,
  • Mingjian Luan,
  • Yuxia Sun,
  • Xi He and
  • Xiangzhong Zhao

Algin is the most abundant substance in alga. Alginate lyase degrades algin and produces algin monosaccharides, disaccharides, and oligosaccharides, which are widely used in bioenergy, food, medicine, and other fields. In this study, one Exiguobacter...

(This article belongs to the Section Microbial Metabolism, Physiology & Genetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,525 Views
23 Pages

Secreted Expression of Thymosin β4 from Pinctada fucata in Pichia pastoris and Its Biological Activity

  • Peng Liu,
  • Xiaojian Mo,
  • Jianbing Liu,
  • Wenyue Li,
  • Jiaxing Tang,
  • Qiting Li and
  • Jiang Lin

15 May 2025

The aim of this study was to achieve the high secretion and expression of thymosin β4 derived from Pinctada fucata in Pichia pastoris, as well as to investigate its antibacterial properties and biological effects in promoting wound healing. The...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,012 Views
15 Pages

15 October 2012

An heterologous expression of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb) for improving cell growth and recombinant protein production has been successfully demonstrated in various hosts, including Pichia pastoris. Lower temperature cultures can enhance target pro...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,172 Views
13 Pages

Metabolic Engineering of Pichia pastoris for the Production of Triacetic Acid Lactone

  • Linjuan Feng,
  • Junhao Xu,
  • Cuifang Ye,
  • Jucan Gao,
  • Lei Huang,
  • Zhinan Xu and
  • Jiazhang Lian

20 April 2023

Triacetic acid lactone (TAL) is a promising renewable platform polyketide with broad biotechnological applications. In this study, we constructed an engineered Pichia pastoris strain for the production of TAL. We first introduced a heterologous TAL b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development and Utilization of Yeast Resources)
  • Short Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,302 Views
9 Pages

Expression of a Deschampsia antarctica Desv. Polypeptide with Lipase Activity in a Pichia pastoris Vector

  • Claudia Rabert,
  • Ana Gutiérrez-Moraga,
  • Alejandro Navarrete-Gallegos,
  • Darío Navarrete-Campos,
  • León A. Bravo and
  • Manuel Gidekel

7 February 2014

The current study isolated and characterized the Lip3F9 polypeptide sequence of Deschampsia antarctica Desv. (GeneBank Accession Number JX846628), which was found to be comprised of 291 base pairs and was, moreover, expressed in Pichia pastoris X-33...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Proteins and Protein-Ligand Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,752 Views
15 Pages

16 May 2022

The sweet protein thaumatin is emerging as a promising sugar replacer in the market today, especially in the food and beverage sector. Rising demand for its production necessitates the large-scale extraction of this protein from its natural plant sou...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant Foods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
12,431 Views
10 Pages

Cloning and Expression of Aspergillus tamarii FS132 Lipase Gene in Pichia pastoris

  • Bihong Shi,
  • Liqing Zeng,
  • Haolei Song,
  • Qiaoqin Shi and
  • Songgang Wu

3 June 2010

A lipase gene (atl) was cloned from Aspergillustamarii FS132 for the first time. The gene was found to have an open reading frame of 1024 base pairs (bp), and the coding region of the gene contained two introns (51 bp and 52 bp). Multi-alignment anal...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
11,470 Views
9 Pages

Constitutive Expression of Thermobifida fusca Thermostable Acetylxylan Esterase Gene in Pichia pastoris

  • Chao-Hsun Yang,
  • Kun-I Lin,
  • Gen-Hung Chen,
  • Yu-Fen Chen,
  • Cheng-Yu Chen,
  • Wei-Lin Chen and
  • Yu-Chun Huang

15 December 2010

A gene encoding the thermostable acetylxylan esterase (AXE) in Thermobifida fusca NTU22 was amplified by PCR, sequenced and cloned into the Pichia pastoris X-33 host strain using the vector pGAPZαA, allowing constitutive expression and secretion of t...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,193 Views
17 Pages

Production and Characterisation of Stabilised PV-3 Virus-like Particles Using Pichia pastoris

  • Lee Sherry,
  • Keith Grehan,
  • Jessica J. Swanson,
  • Mohammad W. Bahar,
  • Claudine Porta,
  • Elizabeth E. Fry,
  • David I. Stuart,
  • David J. Rowlands and
  • Nicola J. Stonehouse

30 September 2022

Following the success of global vaccination programmes using the live-attenuated oral and inactivated poliovirus vaccines (OPV and IPV), wild poliovirus (PV) is now only endemic in Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, the continued use of these vaccine...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rosalind Franklin's 100th Birthday)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,034 Views
18 Pages

Production of Vespa tropica Hyaluronidase by Pichia pastoris

  • Piyapon Janpan,
  • Bernhard Schmelzer,
  • Anuwatchakij Klamrak,
  • Patthana Tastub,
  • Tewa Upathanpreecha,
  • Shaikh Shahinur Rahman,
  • Jaran Nabnueangsap,
  • Yutthakan Saengkun,
  • Prapenpuksiri Rungsa and
  • Sakda Daduang
  • + 1 author

11 December 2024

Hyaluronidases have been a subject of great interest in medical and cosmeceutical applications. Previously, our group demonstrated that the venom glands of Vespa tropica contain hyaluronidase enzymes (VesT2s), and heterologous expression of the corre...

(This article belongs to the Section Fungal Genomics, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,863 Views
15 Pages

24 December 2013

A gene encoding Rhizopus oryzae lipase containing prosequence (ProROL) was cloned into the pPICZαA and electrotransformed into the Pichia pastoris X-33 strain. The lipase was functionally expressed and secreted in Pichia pastoris with a molecular wei...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,688 Views
12 Pages

Expression and Characterization of an Alginate Lyase and Its Thermostable Mutant in Pichia pastoris

  • Suxiao Yang,
  • Zhemin Liu,
  • Xiaodan Fu,
  • Changliang Zhu,
  • Qing Kong,
  • Min Yang and
  • Haijin Mou

11 June 2020

Alginate is one of the most abundant polysaccharides in algae. Alginate lyase degrades alginate through a β-elimination mechanism to produce alginate oligosaccharides with special bioactivities. Improving enzyme activity and thermal stability ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,938 Views
28 Pages

Tuning Fatty Acid Profile and Yield in Pichia pastoris

  • Simon Kobalter,
  • Alena Voit,
  • Myria Bekerle-Bogner,
  • Haris Rudalija,
  • Anne Haas,
  • Tamara Wriessnegger and
  • Harald Pichler

Fatty acids have been supplied for diverse non-food, industrial applications from plant oils and animal fats for many decades. Due to the massively increasing world population demanding a nutritious diet and the thrive to provide feedstocks for indus...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,389 Views
12 Pages

Enzymatic Co-Fermentation of Onion Waste for Bioethanol Production Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia pastoris

  • Iqra Shahid,
  • Ghulam Hussain,
  • Mehwish Anis,
  • Muhammad Umar Farooq,
  • Muhammad Usman,
  • Yasser Fouad and
  • Jaroslaw Krzywanski

24 February 2023

This paper evaluates the feasibility of bioethanol production from onion waste by Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia pastoris and their novel co-culture through fermentation. The process parameters were optimized for each strain and their combinatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conversion of Biomass to Fuel and Commodity Chemicals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,080 Views
15 Pages

Hydrophobins are small, surface-active protein biosurfactants secreted by filamentous fungi with potential applications in industries such as pharmaceuticals, sanitation, and biomaterials. Additionally, hydrophobins are known to stabilize enzymatic p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Microbial Surfactants: Production and Applications (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,779 Views
26 Pages

17 November 2021

The problems that the key biomass variables in Pichia pastoris fermentation process are difficult measure in real time; this paper mainly proposes a multi-model soft sensor modeling method based on the piecewise affine (PWA) modeling method, which is...

(This article belongs to the Collection Artificial Intelligence in Sensors Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,236 Views
21 Pages

Efficient Expression of Lactone Hydrolase Cr2zen for Scalable Zearalenone Degradation in Pichia pastoris

  • Mukhtar Ahmad,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Xiaomeng Liu,
  • Shounan Wang,
  • Tie Yin,
  • Kun Deng,
  • Caixia Lu,
  • Xiaolin Zhang and
  • Wei Jiang

23 December 2025

Zearalenone (ZEN) is a thermostable, lipophilic, non-steroidal estrogenic mycotoxin produced by Fusarium spp. that persistently contaminates food and feed. Its strong estrogenic activity and resistance to conventional detoxification strategies pose s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,241 Views
16 Pages

Biofilm-Based Biocatalysis for Galactooligosaccharides Production by the Surface Display of β-Galactosidase in Pichia pastoris

  • Tianpeng Chen,
  • Shimeng Wang,
  • Huanqing Niu,
  • Guanjia Yang,
  • Sinan Wang,
  • Yuqi Wang,
  • Chaowei Zhou,
  • Bin Yu,
  • Pengpeng Yang and
  • Yong Chen
  • + 3 authors

Galactooligosaccharides (GOS) are one of the most important functional oligosaccharide prebiotics. The surface display of enzymes was considered one of the most excellent strategies to obtain these products. However, a rough industrial environment wo...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Bioactives and Nutraceuticals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,969 Views
11 Pages

21 January 2022

The yeast Pichia pastoris was cultivated under different dissolved oxygen (DO) levels (5, 15, 30 and 50% of the air saturation) to evaluate its impact on the production of the cell-wall polysaccharide chitin–glucan complex (CGC) and mannans. De...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microbial Biopolymers: From Synthesis to Properties and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,990 Views
17 Pages

A Rabies Virus Glycoprotein Subunit Vaccine Produced in Pichia pastoris Induces Neutralizing Antibodies in Mice

  • Ye Yang,
  • Ruo Mo,
  • Zhuoran Hou,
  • Han Wang,
  • Peng Sun,
  • Ruixi Liu,
  • Tiantian Wang,
  • Bin Zhang,
  • Xuchen Hou and
  • Bo Liu
  • + 2 authors

4 April 2026

Background: Rabies is a highly fatal zoonotic disease that causes approximately 59,000 human deaths worldwide each year. Current inactivated rabies vaccines require multiple doses and are associated with high costs. The full-length rabies virus glyco...

(This article belongs to the Section Vaccine Advancement, Efficacy and Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
4,577 Views
14 Pages

High-Level Production of a Thermostable Mutant of Yarrowia lipolytica Lipase 2 in Pichia pastoris

  • Qinghua Zhou,
  • Zhixin Su,
  • Liangcheng Jiao,
  • Yao Wang,
  • Kaixin Yang,
  • Wenjuan Li and
  • Yunjun Yan

31 December 2019

As a promising biocatalyst, Yarrowia lipolytica lipase 2 (YlLip2) is limited in its industrial applications due to its low thermostability. In this study, a thermostable YlLip2 mutant was overexpressed in Pichia pastoris and its half-life time was ov...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,591 Views
14 Pages

Pleurotus ostreatus is a species of white-rot fungi that effectively degrades lignin. In this study, we aimed to efficiently express the lac-2 gene of Pleurotus ostreatus in the Pichia pastoris X33 yeast strain. The enzymatic properties of recombinan...

(This article belongs to the Section Microbial Biotechnology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,287 Views
16 Pages

Enhanced Expression of Alcohol Dehydrogenase I in Pichia pastoris Reduces the Content of Acetaldehyde in Wines

  • Kun Geng,
  • Ying Lin,
  • Xueyun Zheng,
  • Cheng Li,
  • Shuting Chen,
  • He Ling,
  • Jun Yang,
  • Xiangyu Zhu and
  • Shuli Liang

Acetaldehyde is an important carbonyl compound commonly detected in wines. A high concentration of acetaldehyde can affect the flavor of wines and result in adverse effects on human health. Alcohol dehydrogenase I (ADH1) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Microbial Cell Factories, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,427 Views
13 Pages

Pichia pastoris and the Recombinant Human Heterodimeric Amino Acid Transporter 4F2hc-LAT1: From Clone Selection to Pure Protein

  • Satish Kantipudi,
  • Daniel Harder,
  • Sara Bonetti,
  • Dimitrios Fotiadis and
  • Jean-Marc Jeckelmann

Heterodimeric amino acid transporters (HATs) are protein complexes composed of two subunits, a heavy and a light subunit belonging to the solute carrier (SLC) families SLC3 and SLC7. HATs transport amino acids and derivatives thereof across the plasm...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemical and Chemical Analysis & Synthesis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,531 Views
15 Pages

Pichia pastoris is an attractive candidate platform for recombinant protein production. Dissolved oxygen is one of the most important factors in the cultivation of P. pastoris. However, the effect of oxygen on triggering productivity led to ambivale...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,024 Views
15 Pages

16 January 2023

α-Farnesene, an acyclic volatile sesquiterpene, plays important roles in aircraft fuel, food flavoring, agriculture, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Here, by re-creating the NADPH and ATP biosynthetic pathways in Pichia pastoris, we inc...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Microbiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,397 Views
11 Pages

Fusion Partner Facilitates Expression of Cell-Penetrating Peptide L2 in Pichia pastoris

  • Xuan Li,
  • Na Yang,
  • Yuxin Fang,
  • Ruoyu Mao,
  • Ya Hao,
  • Da Teng,
  • Na Dong,
  • Anshan Shan and
  • Jianhua Wang

11 December 2024

Background: L2 is formed by combining the pheromone of Streptococcus agalactiae (S. agalactiae) and a cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) with cell-penetrating selectivity. L2 has more significant penetration and better specificity for killing S. agalacti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioactive Peptides and Their Antibiotic Activity)
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,688 Views
19 Pages

Recent Developments in Heterologous Expression of Cellulases Using the Pichia pastoris Expression System: A Comprehensive Literature Review

  • Nazish Muzaffar,
  • Abdur Raziq,
  • Muhammad Waseem Khan,
  • Niaz Muhammad Khan,
  • Bushra Shahid,
  • Anbareen Gul and
  • Hayat Ullah

Cellulosic biomass is considered an important and sustainable source of renewable energy, which needs a complex mixture of different enzymes for its degradation. After amylase, cellulases are the second most important enzymes, gain more importance du...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exclusive Papers Collection of Editorial Board Members and Invited Scholars in Applied Microbiology (2023, 2024))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,290 Views
11 Pages

6 August 2025

Tea polyphenol oxidase (CsPPO) is a crucial enzyme involved in the production of tea and tea products. However, the recombinant expression of CsPPO in microorganisms is often hindered by challenges such as inclusion body formation and extremely low e...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Biotechnology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,078 Views
14 Pages

15 March 2012

Adiponectin is one of the most bioactive substances secreted by adipose tissue and is involved in the protection against metabolic syndrome, artherosclerosis and type II diabetes. Research into the use of adiponectin as a promising drug for metabolic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,232 Views
12 Pages

Production of a Recombinant Non-Hydroxylated Gelatin Mimetic in Pichia pastoris for Biomedical Applications

  • Pia Gellermann,
  • Caroline Schneider-Barthold,
  • Svenja Nicolin Bolten,
  • Ethan Overfelt,
  • Thomas Scheper and
  • Iliyana Pepelanova

Proteins derived from the natural extracellular matrix like collagen or gelatin are common in clinical research, where they are prized for their biocompatibility and bioactivity. Cells are able to adhere, grow and remodel scaffolds based on these mat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,967 Views
20 Pages

Production and Purification of Soy Leghemoglobin from Pichia pastoris Cultivated in Different Expression Media

  • Emils Bolmanis,
  • Janis Bogans,
  • Inara Akopjana,
  • Arturs Suleiko,
  • Tatjana Kazaka and
  • Andris Kazaks

12 November 2023

Plant-based meat alternatives, exemplified by Impossible Foods’ Impossible Burger, offer a sustainable, ethical substitute for traditional meat, closely mimicking the taste and appearance of meat by utilizing soy leghemoglobin (LegH), a 16 kDa...

(This article belongs to the Section Biological Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,571 Views
12 Pages

Comparison of Different Signal Peptides for the Efficient Secretion of the Sweet-Tasting Plant Protein Brazzein in Pichia pastoris

  • Fabrice Neiers,
  • Christine Belloir,
  • Nicolas Poirier,
  • Christian Naumer,
  • Michael Krohn and
  • Loïc Briand

13 January 2021

Brazzein is a small sweet-tasting protein found in the red berries of a West African evergreen shrub, Pentadiplandra brazzeana Baillon. Brazzein is highly soluble and stable over a large pH range and at high temperatures, which are characteristics th...

(This article belongs to the Section Synthetic Biology and Systems Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,526 Views
17 Pages

Identification of a Gene Encoding a New Fungal Steroid 7-Hydroxylase and Its Functional Characterization in Pichia pastoris Yeast

  • Vyacheslav Kollerov,
  • Sergey Tarlachkov,
  • Andrei Shutov,
  • Alexey Kazantsev and
  • Marina Donova

8 December 2023

The hydroxylation of steroids in the C7β position is one of the rare reactions that allow the production of value-added precursors in the synthesis of ursodeoxycholic acid and other pharmaceuticals. Recently, we discovered this activity in the a...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Microbiology)
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30 June 2025

To address the challenges in modeling and optimization caused by nonlinear dynamic coupling and real-time measurement difficulties of key biological parameters in Pichia pastoris fermentation processes, this study proposes a soft-sensing method based...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)

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