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. 2003 Jul;42(2):75–85. doi: 10.1023/B:CYTO.0000009816.65227.84

Promoting effect of rapeseed proteins and peptides on Sf9 insect cell growth

V Deparis 1, C Durrieu 1, M Schweizer 1, I Marc 1, JL Goergen 1, I Chevalot 1, A Marc 1,✉
PMCID: PMC3449798  PMID: 19002930

Abstract

The Baculovirus Expression Vector System has become widely used for the production of recombinant proteins for research and diagnostics. Serum-free culture media able to support high cell densities have been developed for the large scale culture of insect cells. While serum elimination aims at avoiding the risks associated with the introduction of an ill defined component of bovine origin, additives such as protein hydrolysates from animal sources are still used. An alternative could be the supplementation of culture media with protein hydrolysates derived from plants. In this study, we describe the replacement of lactalbumin hydrolysate with a laboratory produced hydrolysate of rapeseed proteins. Its effect on Sf9 cell growth kinetics, substrate consumption and by-product formation in low-serum or serum-free medium was evaluated. Cells were unable to grow in the presence of a rapeseed protein hydrolysate generated by PTN 3.0 Special® enzyme and containing only 24% of peptides under 1 kDa in size. On the other hand, serum-free medium supplementation with a rapeseed protein hydrolysate obtained with Orientase 90N® enzyme had a strong growth promoting effect, leading to a 60% increase in maximal cell density without affecting cell metabolism. This significant positive effect could be explained by the higher degree of hydrolysis of this digest, with 74% of peptides under 1 kDa in size.

Keywords: Growth kinetics, Hydrolysis degree, Metabolism, Protein hydrolysates, Rapeseed proteins, Serum-free medium, Sf9 cells, Size distribution

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