| abstract |
Processes are described for recovering heterologous polypeptide from bacterial cells, including the periplasm and cytoplasm. One process involves culturing the bacterial cells, which cells comprise nucleic acid encoding phage lysozyme and nucleic acid encoding a protein that displays DNA-digesting activity, wherein these nucleic acids are linked to a first promoter, and nucleic acid encoding the heterologous polypeptide, which nucleic acid is linked to a second promoter, under certain conditions to produce a broth lysate; and recovering accumulated heterologous polypeptide from the broth lysate. Another process entails culturing bacterial cells that comprise nucleic acid encoding phage lysozyme, gene t, and nucleic acid encoding a protein that displays DNA-digesting activity under the control of a signal sequence for secretion of said DNA-digesting protein, wherein said nucleic acids are linked to one or more promoters, and nucleic acid encoding the heterologous polypeptide, which nucleic acid encoding the heterologous polypeptide is linked to another promoter that is inducible, under certain conditions to produce a broth lysate; and recovering accumulated heterologous polypeptide from the broth lysate. |