摘要:
Lignocellulosic raw materials have shown great potential to replace fossil feedstocks in the pursuit of a greener economy. However, the enzymatic depolymerization of this complex material requires a wide variety of pro-teins. Loosenin-like proteins are a family of non-enzymatic proteins which are believed to loosen the junctions between cellulose fibres and thus facilitate enzymatic access. High cell density fermentations using Pichia pastoris (Komagataella phaffi) can be used for the production of recombinant proteins at bioreactor scale. Here, this strategy was used to, for the first time, scale up the production of PcaLOOL12 and PcaLOOL9 encoded by Phanerochaete carnosa using the P. pastoris strain SMD1168H. With a total of 6 productions, various parameters were experimented with, most notably different downstream processing systems, bioreactors, and pH values. The highest final protein yield that was achieved was 403.40 ± 10.65 mg L-1 using the PcaLOOL12- producing strain, a centrifugation based harvesting system, a pH of 6.0 and a 5L glass bioreactor. The highest cell density, 66.6 g of cell dry weight L-1, was achieved in a 7L metal bioreactor with the PcaLOOL9-producing strain with higher gas flow capabilities. However, the microfiltration and concentration- based downstream processing used for this run failed to give representative final yields due to various technical difficulties. Due to the limited number of runs and challenges with keeping key variables constant across the runs, this thesis did not seek to optimize recombinant protein production. Instead, this work suggests many guiding insights into how yields can be maximized further as well as some intuition regarding how to control the fermentation itself.