Analysis of 11,430 recombinant protein production experiments reveals that protein yield is tunable by synonymous codon changes of translation initiation sites.

Recombinant protein production is a key process in generating proteins of interest in the pharmaceutical industry and biomedical research. However, about 50% of recombinant proteins fail to be expressed in a variety of host cells. Here we show that the accessibility of translation initiation sites m...

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Autores principales: Bikash K Bhandari, Chun Shen Lim, Daniela M Remus, Augustine Chen, Craig van Dolleweerd, Paul P Gardner
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:8ffe8742eb264ab78676a7e11bd5d0962021-11-25T05:40:33ZAnalysis of 11,430 recombinant protein production experiments reveals that protein yield is tunable by synonymous codon changes of translation initiation sites.1553-734X1553-735810.1371/journal.pcbi.1009461https://doaj.org/article/8ffe8742eb264ab78676a7e11bd5d0962021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009461https://doaj.org/toc/1553-734Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/1553-7358Recombinant protein production is a key process in generating proteins of interest in the pharmaceutical industry and biomedical research. However, about 50% of recombinant proteins fail to be expressed in a variety of host cells. Here we show that the accessibility of translation initiation sites modelled using the mRNA base-unpairing across the Boltzmann's ensemble significantly outperforms alternative features. This approach accurately predicts the successes or failures of expression experiments, which utilised Escherichia coli cells to express 11,430 recombinant proteins from over 189 diverse species. On this basis, we develop TIsigner that uses simulated annealing to modify up to the first nine codons of mRNAs with synonymous substitutions. We show that accessibility captures the key propensity beyond the target region (initiation sites in this case), as a modest number of synonymous changes is sufficient to tune the recombinant protein expression levels. We build a stochastic simulation model and show that higher accessibility leads to higher protein production and slower cell growth, supporting the idea of protein cost, where cell growth is constrained by protein circuits during overexpression.Bikash K BhandariChun Shen LimDaniela M RemusAugustine ChenCraig van DolleweerdPaul P GardnerPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleBiology (General)QH301-705.5ENPLoS Computational Biology, Vol 17, Iss 10, p e1009461 (2021)
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Bikash K Bhandari
Chun Shen Lim
Daniela M Remus
Augustine Chen
Craig van Dolleweerd
Paul P Gardner
Analysis of 11,430 recombinant protein production experiments reveals that protein yield is tunable by synonymous codon changes of translation initiation sites.
description Recombinant protein production is a key process in generating proteins of interest in the pharmaceutical industry and biomedical research. However, about 50% of recombinant proteins fail to be expressed in a variety of host cells. Here we show that the accessibility of translation initiation sites modelled using the mRNA base-unpairing across the Boltzmann's ensemble significantly outperforms alternative features. This approach accurately predicts the successes or failures of expression experiments, which utilised Escherichia coli cells to express 11,430 recombinant proteins from over 189 diverse species. On this basis, we develop TIsigner that uses simulated annealing to modify up to the first nine codons of mRNAs with synonymous substitutions. We show that accessibility captures the key propensity beyond the target region (initiation sites in this case), as a modest number of synonymous changes is sufficient to tune the recombinant protein expression levels. We build a stochastic simulation model and show that higher accessibility leads to higher protein production and slower cell growth, supporting the idea of protein cost, where cell growth is constrained by protein circuits during overexpression.
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author Bikash K Bhandari
Chun Shen Lim
Daniela M Remus
Augustine Chen
Craig van Dolleweerd
Paul P Gardner
author_facet Bikash K Bhandari
Chun Shen Lim
Daniela M Remus
Augustine Chen
Craig van Dolleweerd
Paul P Gardner
author_sort Bikash K Bhandari
title Analysis of 11,430 recombinant protein production experiments reveals that protein yield is tunable by synonymous codon changes of translation initiation sites.
title_short Analysis of 11,430 recombinant protein production experiments reveals that protein yield is tunable by synonymous codon changes of translation initiation sites.
title_full Analysis of 11,430 recombinant protein production experiments reveals that protein yield is tunable by synonymous codon changes of translation initiation sites.
title_fullStr Analysis of 11,430 recombinant protein production experiments reveals that protein yield is tunable by synonymous codon changes of translation initiation sites.
title_full_unstemmed Analysis of 11,430 recombinant protein production experiments reveals that protein yield is tunable by synonymous codon changes of translation initiation sites.
title_sort analysis of 11,430 recombinant protein production experiments reveals that protein yield is tunable by synonymous codon changes of translation initiation sites.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/8ffe8742eb264ab78676a7e11bd5d096
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