ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>25º Congresso Brasileiro de Microbiologia </TITLE><link rel=STYLESHEET type=text/css href=css.css></HEAD><BODY aLink=#ff0000 bgColor=#FFFFFF leftMargin=0 link=#000000 text=#000000 topMargin=0 vLink=#000000 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><table align=center width=700 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td align=left bgcolor=#cccccc valign=top width=550><font face=arial size=2><strong><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=3><font size=1>25º Congresso Brasileiro de Microbiologia </font></font></strong><font face=Verdana size=1><b><br></b></font><font face=Verdana, Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><strong> </strong></font></font></td><td align=right bgcolor=#cccccc valign=top width=150><font face=arial size=2><strong><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><font size=1>ResumoID:2474-1</font></em></font></strong></font></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2><br><br><table align=center width=700><tr><td>Área: <b>Fermentação e Biotecnologia ( Divisão J )</b><p align=justify><strong><P>STUDY OF RECOMBINANT PLASMID STABILITY TO KANAMYCIN RESISTENCE IN BIOREACTOR</P></strong></p><p align=justify><b><u>Natasha Kuniechick </u></b> (<i>FFARM</i>); <b>Rafael Munareto do Nascimento </b> (<i>FFARM</i>); <b>Thiago Milech Assunção </b> (<i>INCTB</i>); <b>Cláudia Paiva Nunes </b> (<i>INCTB</i>); <b>Jocelei Chies </b> (<i>4G P&D</i>); <b>Luiz Augusto Basso </b> (<i>INCTB</i>); <b>Diógenes Santiago Santos </b> (<i>INCTB</i>)<br><br></p><b><font size=2>Resumo</font></b><p align=justify class=tres><font size=2><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Escherichia coli</SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> is one of the most widely used hosts for production of heterologous proteins. One example of these recombinant proteins is the human growth hormone (hGH), a pituitary-derived polypeptide with a wide range of biological functions including protein synthesis, cell proliferation and therapeutic applications in different treatments.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">In commercial production with recombinant microorganisms, one of the most important problems is plasmid instability, a tendency of the transformed cells to loose their engineered properties because of changes to, or loss of, plasmids. Instability of plasmids can result in a significant loss in productivity.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: #231f20; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">The plasmid stability test determines what proportion of the cells maintain the target plasmid and the ability to express the target protein.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">In the present study we produce the human growth hormone (hGH) using <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Escherichia coli</I> and we are particularly interested in the establishment of a protocol to study the <SPAN style="COLOR: black">stability of the recombinant plasmid </SPAN>containing the gene that codifies the human growth hormone (hGH) in pET30 a(+) vector. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">In order to measure the growth rate, cells harboring plasmids were used to estimate the number of generations that were used in the experimental plots, to define a number of generations used for the analyzes. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">The culture of the strain<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> E. coli</I> C43 (DE3) carrying the construct gene was incubated in M9 minimal medium, in bioreactor cultivation with <SPAN style="COLOR: #231f20">an agitation cascade through automatic adjustment of agitation speed to maintain DO at 30%, </SPAN>to compare the plasmid stability in a medium with or without kanamycin<SPAN style="COLOR: #231f20">. Diluted samples are plated, every generation time, on selective and non selective LB plates. The ratio of colonies on the plates represents the plasmid stability.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: #231f20; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">After 32 hours of cultivation with IPTG induction, the plasmid presented a high stability in both media, with or without kanamycin, indicating a good resistance to this antibiotic with protein expression until the end of cultivation.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></font></p><br><b>Palavras-chave: </b>&nbsp;Bioreactor, Plasmid, Stability</td></tr></table></tr></td></table></body></html>