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Pichia pastoris Bioprocessing

Enhance your Pichia Pastoris fermentations with Bionet

Pichia pastoris, a methylotrophic yeast species, has become a mainstay in research and industrial biotechnology. Known for its ability to produce high yields of recombinant proteins with proper folding and post-translational modifications, Pichia pastoris is a preferred host in many fermentation processes. Utilising a bioreactor system increases this capability, allowing precise control over environmental conditions and optimising protein expression.

Why Bionet?

Bionet is an ideal partner in Pichia Pastoris. We work together with you during the whole project lifecycle: from technology purchasing decisions to the development and optimization of the processes to industrial production.

Specialized expertise: Bionet is your strategic partner for the Pichia Pastoris fermentation process. Our team of experienced process specialists in collaboration with external industry peers hold more than 10 years of experience with this strain, with many achievements in the Pichia community, both in R&D and scale-up to thousand litres. This, together with the correct adaptation of our technologies to this cell line, aims to help you at any step of your work.

Advanced technology Bioreactors are central to the Pichia Pastoris fermentation process, providing a controlled environment to maximise growth and protein production. The integration of Pichia Pastoris fermentation with advanced bioreactor systems represents a powerful synergy for biotechnological production.
Discover how our solutions can improve your Pichia Pastoris fermentation process.

Complete Pichia pastoris Solutions

Improve performance

  • Achieve higher cell density and improved product yield from optimal supply of oxygen with our gas modul (hyperlink to the description of it).
  • Our automotive recipes with triggers will help you to maximise cell growth and protein expression.
  • Ensure proper protein production and folding with improved temperature control.

Reduce the cost while improving quality

  • Avoid evaporation losses with direct methanol and ammonia injections into the broth, through the submerged tubes.
  • Decrease processing time and cost with Bionet’s bScale by minimising the errors in the measurements of additions, caused by different densities that the Pichia substrate solutions may have.
  • Improve quality, cell growth and yield processes by optimisation the supply of nutrition to the growing culture. It reduces production costs while decreasing the waste of substrates.

Ensure smooth scalability

  • Software-controlled feeding ensures that the fermentation process can be precisely controlled and scaled up from lab to industrial scale.
  • Simplify the scaling-up process with Bionet’s improved gas control systems.
  • Improve scaling up and down with dissolved oxygen control and pressure control regulation.

Concrete solutions by our technologies

Optimise supply of oxygen with the most configurable gas module in the market

Achieve growth and productivity improvement by ensuring stable and accurate delivery of the gases. Bionet's gas modules allow a flexible selection of gas to be monitored, with optimised mass flow controller settings for the selected gas.

Automative adjustment of conditions between the different growth stages of Pichia culture

Incorporated triggers into the recipes for automotive transition control between the different growth stages of Pichia culture. Triggers are based on the changes in the values of the process parameters by the crop. It enables prompt reaction of automated systems to changes in critical parameters and therefore reduces contamination risk, downtime.

Regulate agitation, gases and pressure in the pilot scale with O2 cascade control with optimised PID

Without sufficient oxygen, the cells can switch to less efficient anaerobic metabolic pathways, leading to reduced growth rates and productivity. We solve this problem by incorporating a cascade dissolved oxygen control system that fine-tunes agitation and airflow, with proven PIDs, optimised for Pichia applications. In addition, pressure control regulation is included in the pilot scale as an alternative strategy to enrichment with pure O2.

Monitor the metabolic state of the culture with bBreath exhaust gas analiser
  • Avoid inconsistent growth path with a fed-batch strategy used, following parameters such as the CO2 evolution rate or the respiration coefficient (RQ) according to the relation O2/CO2 exhausted.
  • Establish the optimal moment of induction with methanol. As an alternative to carbon source analysers (glycerol, or glucose, or methanol sensors), exhaust gas analysers provide real-time online information on the metabolic state of the culture.
Enhance protein yield and purity through optimised pH filtration with Bionet's TFF system

View TFF System Pichia Pastoris secretes proteins into the extracellular medium, creating a challenge in separating cells and maximising product transfer. Our bioreactors address this issue by optimising pH filtration conditions based on the Isoelectric Point of the target protein, improving its passage through the membrane by leveraging its electrical charge. Additionally, we innovate with various diafiltration modes to refine the separation process, ensuring higher purity and concentration of the target proteins. These advanced techniques make our bioreactors the ideal solution for efficient and high-quality Pichia pastoris applications.

Bioreactors for Pichia pastoris

F1

Laboratory Bioreactor | Universal Bioreactor for your lab

F2

Lab to Pilot Bioreactor | Steam-in-Place Bioreactor

F3

Pilot to Industrial Bioreactor | Steam-in-Place Bioreactor

FS

Industrial Bioreactors | Above 200 litres or to meet specific requirement

Celltainer is our single-use pilot bioreactor with patented two-dimensional rocking technology

Benchtop Bioreactor

Production Bioreactor | Working volume from 0.15L to 15L in one bag

Production Bioreactor | Working volume from 30L to 150L in one bag

TFF for Pichia pastoris

MS

Industrial TFF | Flexible membrane selection

M1

Benchtop to Pilot TFF | Flexible membrane selection

bSmart Modules

Find all the additional modules that your bioreactor needs.

bScale

Module for the connection of scales

bCPM

Increase your bioprocess productivity

bVSP

Expand your asignable pumps

bBreath

Carry out O2/CO2 composition analysis

Clean in Place

Fully integrated CIP system all in the same frame.

FAQs

I always struggle with estimating an optimal moment of induction with methanol. Is there a solution that simplifies this task?

To establish the optimal moment of induction with methanol, it is important to know the state of the culture and the presence or complete depletion of limiting substrates to establish the optimal moment of induction with methanol. bBreath — Bionet's exhaust gas analyser provides real-time online information on the metabolic state of the culture. As an alternative to carbon source analysers as glycerol, glucose, or methanol sensors, exhaust gas analysers provide real-time online information on the metabolic state of the culture. It allows you to know the state of the culture and the presence or complete depletion of limiting substrates to establish the optimal moment of induction with methanol. It maximises the overall yield and thus improves high cell-density cultivation and expression of recombinant proteins.

How can I increase dissolved oxygen levels without the need for pure oxygen?

With a simple cascade dissolved oxygen control system that fine-tunes agitation and airflow, with proven PIDs, optimised for Pichia applications, you will be able to increase dissolved oxygen. increased pressure in the fermentation vessels will lead to enhanced solubility of the oxygen in the culture medium and results in higher dissolved oxygen levels without the need for pure oxygen. It will also improve the oxygen transfer rate, sufficient oxygen to support metabolic activity and enhance the growth and productivity of cells.

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