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The effects of the specific growth rate and methanol concentration on the degradation of hirudin produced by recombinant Pichia pastoris were investigated. When a methanol-limited state and the specific growth rate of 0.02 h−1 were maintained during the fermentation, a minimum degradation of hirudin and a maximum specific hirudin production rate were achieved. By this strategy, the production of intact recombinant hirudin Hir65 reached 0.7 g l−1 in fed-batch fermentation. Its proportion was 35% to all forms of hirudin.
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Zhou, XS., Zhang, YX. Decrease of proteolytic degradation of recombinant hirudin produced by Pichia pastoris by controlling the specific growth rate. Biotechnology Letters 24, 1449–1453 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019831406141
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