Kinetic study of Drosophila melanogaster cells transfected to produce the rabies vírus glycoprotein in bioreactor / Estudo cinético de células de Drosophila melanogaster transfectadas para a produção da glicoproteína da raiva em biorreator
AUTOR(ES)
Marcelo Antonio Aguiar
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2010
RESUMO
The interest in using insect cells to produce complex proteins is due to its ease of cultivation and its glycosylation pattern equivalent to that of mammalian cells systems. The objective of this work was to identify the limiting or inhibiting factors for the production of a rabies virus glycoprotein (RVGP), expressed in the cytoplasmatic membrane of a transfected Drosophila melanogaster S2 cells, when cultivated in a bench stirred bubble-free bioreactor, in batch mode. The influence of dissolved oxygen (5 < pO2 < 80%), of initial glucose concentration (1 < GLC0 < 15 g/L) and of initial glutamine concentration (0.6 < GLN0 < 7 g/L) was evaluated. These variables affected in a different way cell growth (cell production and specific growth rate - µX), cell metabolism (yield factors - YX/GLC, YX/GLN, YLAC/GLC, YALA/GLC, YNH4/GLN and YALA/GLN), as well as the recombinant protein expression (RVGP concentration, RVGP cell content and RVGP productivity). pO2 increase reduced 9 times cell growth, but increased 1.4 times RVGP cell content. Low initial glucose and glutamine concentrations clearly limited the cell growth, in such a way that raising these substrates concentrations up to intermediate values, increased µX,MAX 3 times and 2.5 times, respectively, and increased cell production 11 times and 3 times, respectively. The maximum RVGP cell content was not affected by GLC0, but improved 100% when GLN0 was 3.5 g/L or higher. The concentrations of produced lactate were considered low (below 0.8 g/L) to cause any inhibition effect on growth or protein expression. On the other hand, ammonium concentrations seem to inhibit RVGP production (NH4+~50 mg/L), as well as cell growth (NH4+~80 mg/L). Maximum productivity values (9.1 µg/L.h) and RVGP concentration (1.2 mg/L) were attained for 30% pO2, 10 g/L of GLC0 and 3.5 g/L of GLN0 run. The metabolism of GLC and GLN showed a great interdependence, with GLC0 changes affecting the GLN metabolism, and viceversa. Thus, in glucose excess condition, cell metabolism was less efficient. This implied in reduction of yield factors - YX/GLC (2.3 times) e YX/GLN (4.6 times) - and in higher by-products generation, characterized by augmentation in YALA/GLC (51%), YLAC/GLC (11%) and YNH4/GLN (15%). The glutamine metabolism showed a substrate excess response pattern to the whole range of concentration studied, with reduction of YX/GLN (25 times) and, unexpectedly, a reduction of by-products liberation - YNH4/GLN (7 times) and YALA/GLN (12 times). The effect on glucose metabolism was more intense when the glutamine concentration was higher, showing a 3.6 times diminution YX/GLC and a 70% augmentation for YALA/GLC and YLAC/GLC. The results suggest that cells metabolize glutamine through two different pathways glutaminolysis, under glucose limitation, or glutamate synthase - NADH-GOGAT, under glucose excess. The cell, proved also to be able to synthesize glutamine from ammonium or other amino acids, when it reached concentrations below 50 mg/L.
ASSUNTO(S)
insect cell drosophila melanogaster s2 biorreator rabies virus glycoprotein célula de inseto recombinant protein glicoproteína do vírus rábico drosophila melanogaster s2 bioreactor proteína recombinante metabolismo metabolism
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