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Compositions, systems, and methods for high level expression of recombinant protein

Grant US12577572B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

Duke University

Inventors

Michael Lynch, Romel Menacho Melgar, Zhixia Ye, Eirik A. Moreb

Abstract

Improved production of recombinant proteins in E. coli, reliant on tightly controlled autoinduction, triggered by phosphate depletion in stationary phase. The process also provides an optimized autoinduction media, enabling routine batch production at various culture volumes where cells densities routinely reach ˜5-7 g cell dry weight per liter and offer protein titers above 2 g/L. The methodology has been validated with a set of diverse heterologous proteins and is of general use for the facile optimization of routine protein expression from high throughput screens to fed-batch fermentation.

CPC Classifications

C12P 7/42 C12P 13/06 C12P 21/00 C12P 1/02 C12P 1/04 C12N 2500/00 C12N 15/70

Filing Date

2020-10-23

Application No.

17755158

Claims

15