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Bioenergetic consequences of protein overexpression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Gopal, Chandra V., Broad, David and Lloyd, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5656-0571 1989. Bioenergetic consequences of protein overexpression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 30 (2) , pp. 160-165. 10.1007/BF00264005

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Abstract

Some bioenergetic consequences of overexpression of plasmid-encoded homologous (phosphoglycerate kinase), and heterologous (prochymosin), protein in S. cerevisiae strains grown in chemostat culture have been investigated. Both overexpressing strains were found to exhibit similar fermentation patterns despite a 10-fold difference in product expression levels. Biomass yields were lower than those for a control strain, and the onset of oxido-fermentative metabolism occurred at a lower dilution rate. A marked rise in cellular ATP content with increasing dilution rate during oxidative growth was observed in the strain overexpressing yeast phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK); this at present cannot be adequately explained. The inorganic phosphate content of the overexpressing strains was higher than that of the control and the phosphorylation potential of the prochymosin expressing strain was up to 10-fold lower than both the control and PGK overexpressing strains. It is proposed that expression of heterologous prochymosin imposes a greater energy drain on the host than overexpression of homologous PGK. This energetic drain may be a limiting factor in heterologous gene expression.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Biosciences
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0175-7598
Date of Acceptance: 2 September 1988
Last Modified: 26 Oct 2022 08:35
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/127835

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