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J. Christopher Love. Matthews, Catherine Bartlett. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering 2019-10-11T22:00:25Z 2019-10-11T22:00:25Z 2019 2019 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122528 1121594217 Thesis: Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, 2019 Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references. Adoption of non-mammalian host organisms for biologic drug manufacturing could lead to step-changes in cost of manufacturing and volumetric productivity, increasing access to these life-saving drugs for large patient populations. One promising alternative host is Pichia pastoris, a methylotrophic yeast that is currently used to manufacture ten approved drugs worldwide. Its fast growth rate and ability to grow to high cell densities can enable fast production cycles, agile process development, and potentially low production costs. While P. pastoris has already been engineered to produce antibodies with human-like glycoforms, titers are still lower than those typically achieved with CHO cells. While standard fermentation processes for P. pastoris have been designed, several areas have limited investment to date. Few chemically-defined cultivation media have been reported for P. pastoris fermentation and all are minimal salt solutions. While several studies have demonstrated that addition of complex nutrients improves growth and productivity, defined compounds with similar effects have not been identified. Also, methanol feeding protocols for P. pastoris have only been developed for fed-batch operation and have not been studied for perfusion cultivation. In this thesis, we describe the design of a rich defined medium (RDM) for cultivation of P. pastoris through systematic screening and gene expression analysis. The use of RDM for expression of three proteins yields titers comparable to, or higher than, those in standard complex medium. We then outline a similar methodology for the optimization of individual amino acids and fatty acids in the medium. We also describe how a transcriptomic analysis of methanol feeding strategy in perfusion mode enabled the identification and alleviation of limiting biological processes. This work demonstrates how combining traditional process development strategies with genome-wide sequencing for P. pastoris leads to rapid improvement of fermentation processes. Continued progress in this area could lead to a new model for low-cost production of high-quality biologic drugs. by Catherine Bartlett Matthews. Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering Practice Ph.D.inChemicalEngineeringPractice Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering 136 pages eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 Chemical Engineering. Design of a cultivation medium for protein production in Pichia pastoris based on genome-wide biological understanding Thesis application/pdf 2019-10-11T22:00:24Z Publication Doctoral ChemEng unknown unknown <Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="55f39163-de2b-4b32-a2f4-cdbcfb191dfd"> <Type xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/vocab/COAR_Publication_Types">http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843</Type> <Language>eng</Language> <Title>Design of a cultivation medium for protein production in Pichia pastoris based on genome-wide biological understanding</Title> <PublishedIn> <Publication> </Publication> </PublishedIn> <PublicationDate>2019</PublicationDate> <Authors> <Author> <DisplayName>Matthews, Catherine Bartlett.</DisplayName> <Affiliation> <OrgUnit> </OrgUnit> </Affiliation> </Author> </Authors> <Editors> </Editors> <Publishers> <Publisher> <DisplayName>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DisplayName> <OrgUnit /> </Publisher> </Publishers> <License>http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582</License> <Keyword>Chemical Engineering.</Keyword> <Abstract>Adoption of non-mammalian host organisms for biologic drug manufacturing could lead to step-changes in cost of manufacturing and volumetric productivity, increasing access to these life-saving drugs for large patient populations. 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Also, methanol feeding protocols for P. pastoris have only been developed for fed-batch operation and have not been studied for perfusion cultivation. In this thesis, we describe the design of a rich defined medium (RDM) for cultivation of P. pastoris through systematic screening and gene expression analysis. The use of RDM for expression of three proteins yields titers comparable to, or higher than, those in standard complex medium. We then outline a similar methodology for the optimization of individual amino acids and fatty acids in the medium. We also describe how a transcriptomic analysis of methanol feeding strategy in perfusion mode enabled the identification and alleviation of limiting biological processes.</Abstract> <Abstract>This work demonstrates how combining traditional process development strategies with genome-wide sequencing for P. pastoris leads to rapid improvement of fermentation processes. 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