K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 4, 2023, 1 p.m.
...yeast strains S. cerevisiae and S. pombe have dominated the research scene. But what about the other yeasts...promoter, AOX1, was co-opted for the expression of recombinant proteins by the pharmaceutical and biotech industries...efficient at protein secretion, making harvesting recombinant proteins a cinch. This is because it doesn’t ...secrete its own endogenous proteins, making the recombinant protein its major secretion.
Beyond sheer protein... good for post-translational modification of recombinant protein products, specifically glycosylation....glycosylation machinery of K. phaffii lacks certain terminal mannose glycopeptides (which most other yeast ...phaffii, relative to S. cerevisiae, is that it predominantly uses non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) to perform...