Abstract
Expression of specific genes is a strategy of animal cells for adaptation to oxygen deficiency and the mechanism underlying the hypoxic activation of gene expression may be useful for efficient production of recombinant proteins by animal cells, because oxygen is a limiting factor in animal cell cultures. We prepared an animal cell line harboring the plasmid in which expression of a reporter gene, β-galactosidase, is controlled by an enhancer responsible for the hypoxic activation of gene transcription. The purpose of this paper is to understand this hypoxic production of recombinant proteins quantitatively by a mathematical model originally developed based on the following hypotheses; 1 lacZ (the reporter gene) is transcribed after HIF-1 protein complex is bound to the hypoxic enhancer, 2. β-galactosidase synthesis rate is limited at the transcription of lacZ, 3. HIF-1 is an inactive form under a normal oxygen concentration, 4. Oxygen works as a repressor in the synthesis of HIF-1 protein, 5. Both β-galactosidase and HIF-1 are decomposed according to the first order reaction. The effects of hypoxic duration as well as oxygen concentration on the β-galactosidase production were successfully predicated by the model.
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Shirai, Y., Inagaki, M., Yamaguchi, M. et al. Effect of hypoxia duration on the oxygen-dependent production of a recombinant protein, β-galactosidase, by an animal cell line, F6D2, with a hypoxia-inducible enhancer. Cytotechnology 25, 71–77 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007911816292
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