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Production of the Soluble Human Fas Ligand by Dictyostelium Discoideum Cultivated on a Synthetic Medium

Production of the Soluble Human Fas Ligand by Dictyostelium Discoideum Cultivated on a Synthetic Medium

Yinghua Lu, Jaco C Knol, Maarten H K Linskens, Karl Friehs, Peter J M Van Haastert, Erwin Flaschel

J Biotechnol. 2004 Mar 18;108(3):243-51.

PMID: 15006425

Abstract:

Human Fas ligand (hFasL) is of considerable interest since it is a type II transmembrane glycoprotein that induces programmed cell death, or apoptosis. In this study Dictyostelium discoideum was used to produce a soluble form of the human Fas ligand. The recombinant cells were adapted to a modified synthetic FM medium, called SIH medium. Cells adapted to the SIH medium reached about 2 times higher cell densities and hFasL concentrations on this medium compared with cells growing on the standard complex medium HL-5C. Even higher values were achieved by a dissolved oxygen-controlled fed-batch cultivation in a conventional stirred bioreactor on SIH medium. Cell densities of up to 5.5 x 10(7) ml(-1) and a maximum hFasL concentration of 148 microgl(-1) were obtained. These results were further improved by means of continuous cultivation of D. discoideum in a bioreactor equipped with cell retention by microfiltration. At low space velocity very high cell densities of up to 2.4 x 10(8) ml(-1) and hFasL concentrations of up to 205 microgl(-1) were achieved.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
IAR42412944	Fas Ligand, soluble human			Price

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