Xingjuan Li
Jianlie Shen*- Guangzhou Shenjingya Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, China
Yeasts are often considered microorganisms for producing human therapeutic glycosylated end-products at an industrial scale. However, the products with non-humanized glycans limited their usage. Therefore, various methods to develop humanized glycosylated end-products have been widely reported in yeasts. To make full use of these methods, it is necessary to summarize the present research to find effective approaches to producing humanized products. The present research focuses on yeast species selection, glycosyltransferase deletion, expression of endoglycosidase, and expression of proteins with galactosylated and or sialylated glycans. Nevertheless, the yeasts will have growth defects with low bioactivity when the key enzymes are deleted. It is necessary to express the corresponding repairing protein. Compared with N-glycosylation, the function of yeast protein O-glycosylation is not well-understood. Yeast proteins have a wide variety of O-glycans in different species, and it is difficult to predict glycosylation sites, which limits the humanization of O-glycosylated yeast proteins. The future challenges include the following points: there are still many important potential yeasts that have never been tried to produce glycosylated therapeutic products. Their glycosylation pathway and related mechanisms for producing humanized glycosylated proteins have rarely been reported. On the other hand, the amounts of key enzymes on glycan pathways in human beings are significantly more than those in yeasts. Therefore, there is still a challenge to produce a large body of humanized therapeutic end-products in suitable yeast species, especially the protein with complex glycans. CRISPR-Cas9 system may provide a potential approach to address the important issue.
Introduction
Engineering Escherichia coli has been widely used for the production of human advanced biopharmaceutical products (Arico et al., 2013). However, the recombinant proteins in non-glycosylated forms often suffer from short-term half-life, low activity, rapid clearance, and side effects. Pharmacokinetic studies in Wistar rats revealed 1.3-fold increase in plasma half-life for glycosylated IFN α2b compared to standard IFN α2b produced by E. coli (Baghban et al., 2018). Therefore, it is necessary to develop humanized glycosylated therapeutic products (Cheon et al., 2012). Yeasts are often firstly considered microorganisms for producing human therapeutic glycosylated end-products at an industrial scale. Long historical usage, vast data, and rich experiences have paved the way for Saccharomyces cerevisiae as an important expression platform and a microbial cell factory for producing human therapeutic products (Corbacho et al., 2005). In S. cerevisiae, the recombinant proteins are often typically hypermannosylated (Man>50GlcNAc2), which also affects the half-life, tissue distribution, and immunogenicity of the end-products. It is critical to developing the engineering of S. cerevisiae for producing the proteins with humanized glycosylation patterns by modulating mannosyltransferase and or other enzymes responsible for the chain biosynthesis of N-glycans (Crauwels et al., 2015).
Pichia pastoris expression system is one of the most popular tools for producing a recombinant protein with many advantages, including the low incidence of hyperglycosylated, appropriate folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), and secretion expression with high purity (De Pourcq et al., 2012). Much effort has been paid to improving the N-glycosylation pathway of P. pastoris to mimic the human N-glycosylation pathway. Successful utilization of the CRISPR-Cas9 system has been used for the humanization of the glycosylation pathways in P. pastoris by disrupting och1 and alg3 (mannosyltransferase) genes (Dolashka-Angelova et al., 2010). Kluyveromyces lactis is a food-grade yeast commonly used for industrial applications. Gene modification has been applied to construct a humanized N-linked glycosylation pathway in K. lactis. Besides the above conventional yeast species, other established yeast expression systems include Hansenula polymorpha (Gündüz Ergün et al., 2019; Fukunaga et al., 2021a,b; Giorgetti et al., 2021; Gallo et al., 2022), Yarrowia lipolytica (Hamilton et al., 2013; Karbalaei et al., 2020; Jin et al., 2021), Schizosaccharomyces pombe (Kim et al., 2006; Katla et al., 2019; Lawton et al., 2021), Kluyveromyces marxianus (Lee et al., 2020), Candida albicans (Li et al., 2019), and Zygosaccharomyces cidri (Liu et al., 2009). The strategies to produce humanized glycosylated end-products were explored by using these yeast species.
N-Glycosylated Forms of Proteins in Yeasts and Mammalian Cells
The N-glycosylation has been widely studied in yeast species, indicating that the glycosylated signaling pathway is similar to that in mammalian cells. Man3GlcNAc2 is the common core of eukaryotic N-glycans, which further yields the Man8GlcNAc2 core via oligosaccharyltransferase. Man8GlcNAc2-Asn-protein is produced in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and conveyed to Golgi (Figure 1A). In Golgi, there is a significant difference in the glycosylation formation of proteins, Man8GlcNAc2 glycan is truncated into Man5GlcNAc2 via mannosidase in mammalian cells (Figure 1B) while Man8GlcNAc2 in yeasts is extended to form Man9GlcNAc2 and hypermannosylation via mannosyl transferase (Figure 1A), which will be cleared in human blood because of its non-human glycan (Ma et al., 2019). Genome-wide analysis for S. cerevisiae shows 19 different genes associated with mannoprotein-linked oligosaccharide generation, including CAX4 (dolichyl pyrophosphate (Dol-PP) phosphatase), OST4 (oligosaccharyltransferase), OCH1/LDB12 (Mannosyltransferase), MNN(Mannosyltransferase)2/LDB8, MNN4, MNN5, KTR6/MNN6, ANP1/MNN8, MNN9, MNN10, MNN11, GDA1 (Golgi GDPase), HOC1/LDB12 (glycosyltransferase), VAN1/LDB13 (glycosylation of secreted invertase), OST3, RHK1/ALG(mannosyltransferase)3, ALG5, ALG6, and ALG9, which mainly existed in nucleic ER and Golgi ER (Figure 1A; Narimatsu et al., 2019). Most yeast species produce the glycosylated protein with mannose units with long chains.
Figure 1. Glycosylation pathway between yeasts and mammalian cells. (A) N-glycosylation pathway in yeasts. (B) N-glycosylation pathway in mammalian cells. (C) O-glycosylation pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In the ER, the first mannose residue is added via protein-O-mannosyltransferases (Pmt1-7p). O-glycosylation is further elongated in the Golgi via several mannosyltransferases. (D) Mucin-type O-glycan synthesis in human cells.
Comparatively, the transferases in mammalian cells are significantly more than those in S. cerevisiae. More than 170 human glycosyltransferases have been found in the glycosylation pathway (Figure 1B; Oh et al., 2008). Most mammals produce the glycosylated protein with the mannose, galactose, and sialic acid N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc) units in the short-chain (Figure 1B). Therefore, the glycosylated proteins in yeast species are significantly longer than those in mammalian cells while the ingredients in mammalian cells are more complex than those in yeast species.
O-Glycosylated Forms of Proteins in Yeasts and Mammalian Cells
Compared with N-glycosylation, the function of yeast protein O-glycosylation is poorly understood. Yeast proteins have a wide variety of O-glycans in different species, and it is difficult to predict glycosylation sites, which limits the humanization of O-glycosylated yeast proteins. The first mannose linked to yeast protein is provided by polyterpenoid phosphate mannose (Dol-P-Man). Dol-P-Man is synthesized from guanosine diphosphate-mannose (GDP-Man) and polyterpenoid phosphate mannose (Dol-P) under the catalysis of Dol-P-Man synthase, and then, enters the endoplasmic reticulum to initiate protein O-glycosylation (Figure 1C). In contrast, mucin-type O-glycan synthesis in human cells starts with an N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) residue attached with specific Ser/Thr residues with eight-type cores. The initiating residues are further elongated with a variety of monosaccharides. In the Golgi apparatus, the elongation of oligosaccharides is catalyzed by GalNAc transferases using UDP-GalNAc as a donor (Figure 1D). However, manufacturing the O-glycosylation pathway is not as progressive as N-glycosylation. Humanized mucin-type O-glycans had been identified in S. cerevisiae to provide a biosynthetic pathway for UDP-GalNAc and UDP-Gal/GalNAc-4-epimerase production (Luu et al., 2019).
An Exploration of Strategies to Regulate Glycosylation of End-Products in Yeasts
Although yeasts have the potential to produce various types of industrial proteins, their failures to produce humanized glycoproteins limit their usage. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the strategies to regulate glycan forms of end-products in yeasts.
Deletion of Mannosyltransferase
The glycan chains in yeast species are often longer than those in human beings. To fix the flaw, the key enzyme mannosyltransferase, which existed in N-glycosylation pathways, is often considered to be blocked. Och1(α-1,6-mannosyltransferase) and MNN1 (α-1,3-mannosyltransferase) produce mostly high-mannose glycans of the Man8GlcNAc2 (Figure 1A). Inactivation of the OCH1 gene is often an effective approach to eliminate hypermannosylation in H. polymorpha (Fukunaga et al., 2021b; Gallo et al., 2022), K. lactis (Park et al., 2011), P. pastoris (Ma et al., 2019), S. cerevisiae (Piirainen et al., 2022), and Y. lipolytica (Karbalaei et al., 2020), which results in the expressed proteins with short-chain glycan from Man3GlcNAc2 to Man14GlcNAc2 (Table 1). Especially in H. polymorpha, the deletion of OCH1 and alg3, and/or alg3 and alg11 can produce the protein with Man3GlcNAc2 (Gündüz Ergün et al., 2019; Fukunaga et al., 2021b). The expression of alg6 in S. pombe also produces the short-chain glycoprotein (Hamilton et al., 2013).
Table 1. Humanized glycoprotein expression in genetically modifying yeasts or naturally yeasts.
Overexpression of Repairing Proteins
Protein glycosylation is often associated with cell wall integrity and its disruption may affect yeast bioactivity. The yeasts will have growth defects and low bioactivity when the key enzymes are deleted. Inactivation of the OCH1 gene will damage S. cerevisiae viability. The overexpression of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored protein can restore the bioactivity (Table 1; Prabhakar et al., 2019). Therefore, overexpression of repairing proteins may be an effective approach to improve the yields of humanized products.
Overexpression of Endoglycosidase
The overexpression of endoglycosidase α-1,2-mannosidase can prevent the glycan chain from further extending in P. pastoris (Ma et al., 2019). ENGase isoform possesses great hydrolytic activities toward high-mannose N-glycans and short-chain glycan was produced after the ENGase was expressed in P. pastoris (Prill et al., 2005). EndoS2, an IgG-specific endoglycosidase, also has a similar function to ENGase and was expressed in S. cerevisiae to produce a single N-acetylglucosamine residue (Ryckaert et al., 2005).
Production of Galactosylated Protein
In mammalian cells, GlcNAc sugars are attached to the paucimannose core with 2-4 GlcNac sugars, which can be further prolonged by adding galactose via GalTI (β-1,4-galactosyltransferase I). GalTI was expressed in H. polymorpha and increased the formation of galactosylated complex-type glycans (Giorgetti et al., 2021). A human galactosyltransferase fused protein with a UDP-glucose 4-epimerase domain from S. pombe was expressed in P. pastoris and also produced galactosylated proteins (Selas Castiñeiras et al., 2018).
Production of Sialylated Glycoproteins
The lack of sialylation on glycoprotein will reduce its efficacy as a therapeutic agent because of the rapid clearance of the protein from the human bloodstream. Human glycans are often capped terminally with sialic acid via sialyltransferase (ST, localized in Golgi, Figure 1B). A more effective biocatalyst system for producing sialylated glycoproteins was established in S. cerevisiae via the deletion of OCH1 and expression of ST more than one decade ago (Shenoy et al., 2021). Sialylated O-linked glycans were produced in P. pastoris via the expression of β-1,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase 1 (AST; Song et al., 2010).
Selection of Yeast Species
Among all the selected yeast species, H. polymorpha, K. marxianus, S. pombe, and Y. lipolytic tend to produce short-chain-glycan proteins than other yeast species (Table 1). Therefore, these yeast species may be more suitable to produce humanized end-products.
Discussion
Over the past decades, engineering modification of N-glycosylation pathways in yeast species has developed significantly. Most yeast strains are suitable to produce the end-products with hybrid N-glycosylation, galactosylation, and sialyation complex glycans at high uniformity (Table 1). With the development of the yeast expression system, it is expected that yeast strains with the ability to generate fully humanized proteins or end-products will be attainable shortly. Nonetheless, there are still some challenges in exploring the yeast expressing system.
1) Arxula adeninivorans is an unconventional, non-pathogenic, and haploid yeast and maybe a new expression platform (Song et al., 2007). Brettanomyces bruxellensis, a wine yeast, mainly contributes to spontaneous beer fermentations associated with industrial fermentation ecosystems (Tanaka et al., 2021). Brettanomyces claussenii, a yeast often found on pineapple or other tropical fruits, expands the potential for the valorization of dairy by-products to functional beverages (Turakainen et al., 1994). Candida utilis is a commercial food additive and a potentially beneficial host for producing heterologous protein (Uccelletti et al., 2004). Hanseniaspora uvarum (anamorph Kloeckera apiculata) is an apiculate yeast species normally found on wine grapes and other fruits and has a strong influence on wine quality. Zygosaccharomyces bailii is a yeast species widely present in wine, tea, and vinegar fermentations (Uccelletti et al., 2006). However, these yeasts, and their N-glycosylation pathway and related mechanisms for producing humanized glycosylated proteins have rarely been reported.
2) There are more than 20 glycosyltransferases found in the glycosylation pathway in S. cerevisiae (Figure 1A; Narimatsu et al., 2019) and 170 human glycosyltransferases found in the glycosylation pathway (Figure 1B; Oh et al., 2008). Therefore, there is still a challenge to produce a large body of humanized therapeutic end-products with complex glycan in suitable yeasts. Making full use of the CRISPR-Cas9 technique may be a potential strategy to address the important issues (Ueda et al., 1993; Dolashka-Angelova et al., 2010).
Author Contributions
XL, XC, LC, SW, and CC collected and analyzed all data. XQ, XL, XC, JS, KC, and HT contributed to the conception and designing the article and interpreted the relevant literature. XL and HT drafted and revised the article. The manuscript has been read and approved by all authors before submission.
Funding
The present work was supported by Guangzhou Zengcheng Qiaomengyuan Branch Project (Grant No. 20210300X).
Conflict of Interest
XL, JS, XC, LC, SW, XQ, KC, CC, and HT were employed by Guangzhou Shenjingya Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd.
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Keywords: humanized glycosylation, yeasts, genetically engineering, end-products, galactosylated complex-type glycans
Citation: Li X, Shen J, Chen X, Chen L, Wan S, Qiu X, Chen K, Chen C and Tan H (2022) Humanization of Yeasts for Glycan-Type End-Products. Front. Microbiol. 13:930658. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.930658
Received: 28 April 2022; Accepted: 31 May 2022;
Published: 07 July 2022.
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