Uso de sistemas virais citoplasmáticos de Saccharomyces cerevisiae para a produção de proteínas heterólogas

Abstract

The production of heterologous proteins and peptides represents one of the most important segments of the biotechnology industry. Despite the different technologies available today for (bio) synthesis of proteins and peptides (such as chemical synthesis or the use of microorganisms, transgenic animals and plants), none of these are capable of producing sufficient quantities of proteins and peptides to the needs of the market because they present high costs of production and marketing. Thus, this project aims to use the alternative genetic systems or unconventional existing in the cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the production of heterologous proteins and peptides on a large scale, with a high degree of purity needed for clinical applications and at a cost of production compared low for commercial use. These non-conventional systems, particularly represented by intracellular viral particles of S. cerevisiae, are known for several decades to give the killer phenotype in different strains of yeast, both for environmental isolates and to the strains used industrially. The molecular characteristics of these viral systems are well known, and the genomes of different types of viral particles from S. cerevisiae have been completely sequenced. Thus, this work assessed the capacity of industrial and laboratory yeasts to produce heterologous proteins and peptides using a viral system naturally present in yeast that is a natural mutant of the helper virus L-A, called X system of S. cerevisiae.