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Table 5 Continuous cultures comparison.

From: Operational strategies, monitoring and control of heterologous protein production in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris under different promoters: A review

Protein

Promoter

Operation

Mixed substrates

D (1/h)

Protein (mg/L)

Productivity (mg/L h)

YP/X(mg prot/g X)

Specific productivity (mg prot/gX h)

Reference

porcine FSH

AOX Muts

Fed-batch

methanol

--

45

0.3

1.2

0.014

[23]

   

gly-met

--

27

0.2

0.6

0.011

 
   

sor-met

--

93

0.6

0.9

0.016

 
   

sor-met-cas

--

72

0.5

1.4

0.017

 
   

sor-met-ye

--

113

0.8

1.5

0.019

 
   

sor-met-v-ts

--

187

1.3

2.5

0.035

 
  

Continuous

methanol

0.012

170

2.0

2.8

0.033

 
   

met-sor-v-ts

0.005

282

1.4

3.6

0.018

 
    

0.01

121

1.1

1.8

0.018

 

Sea raven antifreeze

AOX Muts

Fed-batch

gly-met

μ = 0.03

180

2.3

3

0.038

[48]

protein

   

μ = 0.07

120

2.4

2

0.040

 
  

Continuous

 

0.01

60

0.6

1.5

0.015

 
    

0.02

40

0.8

1

0.020

 
    

0.03

50

1.5

1.3

0.040

 
    

0.05

15

0.8

0.5

0.025

 
    

0.07

15

1.1

0.7

0.050

 
    

0.08

15

1.2

0.8

0.060

 
    

0.09

15

1.4

0.7

0.065

 

Bovine lisozyme

AOX Muts

Fed-batch

methanol

--

250

1.2

5.2

0.026

[42]

   

gly-met 4:1

--

180

3.4

2.3

0.046

 
   

gly-met 2:1

--

290

4.8

3.7

0.062

 
   

Non-limiting methanol

--

375

5.6

4

0.093

 
 

AOX Mut+

Fed-batch

methanol

--

450

7.7

5.6

0.154

 
  

Continuous

methanol

0.035

600

12–15

--

--

 

Chymotripsynogen B

AOX Mut+

Fed-batch

methanol

--

475

5.3

3.2

0.035

[39,45]

  

Continuous

methanol

0.038

368

14

--

--

 
    

0.062

339

21

--

--

 
    

0.072

347

25

4.3

0.31

 

Ovine interferon-ô

AOX Mut+

Continuous

methanol

0.008

45

0.4

0.9

0.007

[87]

    

0.0136

149

2.0

2.3

0.031

 
    

0.035

85

3.0

1.3

0.047

 
    

0.05

39

2.0

0.5

0.027

 

h-chitinase

GAP

Fed-batch

glucose

--

300

2.5

7.5

0063

[84]

    

--

450

2.7

6.8

0.040

 
  

Continuous

 

--

300

15

2.1

0.150

 

h-chitinase

GAP

Continuous

glucose

0.042

250

6.1

2.8

0.067

[83]

  1. gly = Glycerol; met = Methanol; sor = Sorbitol; cas = casaminoacids; ye = yeast extract; v = vitamins; ts = trace salts.