A Multi-Omics Analysis of Recombinant Protein Production in Hek293 Cells

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AMulti-OmicsAnalysisofRecombinantProteinProductioninHek293Cells

StefanieDietmair*,MarkP.Hodson,Lake-EeQuek,NicholasE.Timmins,PeterGray,LarsK.NielsenAustralianInstituteforBioengineeringandNanotechnology(AIBN),TheUniversityofQueensland,Brisbane,Queensland,Australia

AbstractHek293cellsarethepredominanthostsfortransientexpressionofrecombinantproteinsandareusedforstableexpressionofproteinswherepost-translationalmodificationsperformedbyCHOcellsareinadequate.Nevertheless,thereislittleinformationavailableonthekeycellularfeaturesunderpinningrecombinantproteinproductioninHek293cells.ToimproveourunderstandingofrecombinantproteinproductioninHek293cellsandidentifytargetsfortheengineeringofanimprovedhostcellline,wehavecomparedastable,recombinantproteinproducingHek293celllineanditsparentalcelllineusingacombinationoftranscriptomics,metabolomicsandfluxomics.Producerculturesconsumedlessglucosethannon-producercultureswhileachievingthesamegrowthrate,despitetheadditionalburdenofrecombinantproteinproduction.Surprisingly,therewasnoindicationthatproducerculturescompensatedforthereductioninglycolyticenergybyincreasingtheefficiencyofglucoseutilizationorincreasingglutamineconsumption.Incontrast,glutamineconsumptionwaslowerandthemajorityofgenesinvolvedinoxidativephosphorylationweredownregulatedinproducercultures.Weobservedanoveralldownregulationofalargenumberofgenesassociatedwithbroadcellularfunctions(e.g.,cellgrowthandproliferation)inproducercultures,andthereforespeculatethatabroadadaptationofthecellularnetworkfreedupresourcesforrecombinantproteinproductionwhilemaintainingthesamegrowthrate.Increasedabundanceofgenesassociatedwithendoplasmicreticulumstressindicatedapossiblebottleneckatthepointofproteinfoldingandassembly.

Citation:DietmairS,HodsonMP,QuekL-E,TimminsNE,GrayP,etal.(2012)AMulti-OmicsAnalysisofRecombinantProteinProductioninHek293Cells.PLoSONE7(8):e43394.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043394

Editor:MikaelRørdamAndersen,TechnicalUniversityofDenmark,DenmarkReceivedFebruary24,2012;AcceptedJuly19,2012;PublishedAugust24,2012Copyright:ß2012Dietmairetal.Thisisanopen-accessarticledistributedunderthetermsoftheCreativeCommonsAttributionLicense,whichpermitsunrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalauthorandsourcearecredited.

Funding:Theauthorshavenosupportorfundingtoreport.CompetingInterests:Theauthorshavedeclaredthatnocompetinginterestsexist.*E-mail:stefanie.dietmair@googlemail.com

IntroductionRecombinantproteinssuchashormones,growthfactors,cytokinesandmonoclonalantibodiesplayanimportantroleinmodernmedicine,beingusedtotreatavarietyofdiseases(e.g.diabetes,anaemia,hepatitisandcancer)[1].Manyoftheseproteinsrequirearangeofpost-translationalmodifications(e.g.,glycosylation,phosphorylation)toensurecorrectfolding,activity,safetyandstability,andarethereforeproducedinmammaliancells[2].ThemostpopularmammalianhostcellsfortheproductionofbiopharmaceuticalsareCHOcellsduetotheirextensivecharacterizationandhistoryofregulatoryapprovals.However,CHOcellscannotperformalltypesofhumanglycosylationastheylackcertainsugartransferringenzymessuchasa(2–6)sialyltrans-feraseanda(1–3/4)fucosyltransferases[3].Inaddition,CHOcellsareknowntoaddpotentiallyimmunogenicglycanstructures,whichcanresultinincreasedclearanceofthedrugandreducedefficacy[4].Forthesereasons,itisoftenadvantageousandsometimesessentialtoproducecertainrecombinantproteinsinhumancellssuchashumanfibrosarcoma(HT-1080),humanretinal(PerC.6)orhumanembryonickidney293cells(Hek293).OnesuchexampleisXigris(activatedproteinC),whichisproducedinHek293cellsasthepost-transitionalmodificationsperformedbyCHOcellswerefoundtobeinadequate[4].

Inadditiontobeingastablehostforproductionofseveralproteintherapeutics,Hek293isthepredominantcelllinefortransientexpressionofrecombinantproteins[5,6].Transienttransfectionallowsrapidproductionofrecombinantproteins,butproducttitresaregenerallylowerthanthoseachievedwithstablytransfectedcelllines[5].Iftransientproducttitresweretobeincreasedtothesamelevelasstablecelllines,itcouldbeenvisagedthattransienttransfectionsmaybeaviablealternativetothetimeandlabourintensivegenerationofstablecelllines[7].Whilesignificantefforthasbeenplacedonoptimisingexpressionvectors,transfectionprotocolsandmediacomposition[5,7–9],lessefforthasbeenplacedonunderstandingwhichcellularfeaturesarerequiredforhighproductivityinHek293cellsandsubsequentengineeringofanimprovedhostcell.Transientsystemsaredifficulttostudyduetotheirnature,butinmanycasesstrategiesknowntoenhancecellspecificproduc-tivitiesofstablecelllines(e.g.,cultivationatlowertemperatures,hyperosmolarity,additionofsodiumbutyrate,expressionofcellcycleregulators)wereshowntoincreasetransientproducttitres[6,10–13].Thus,itappearsthatfactorsinfluencingproductivityinstableandtransientcelllinesaresimilar.TopavethewayforengineeringofHek293cellswithimprovedproteinproductioncapacityinatransientandstablesetting,wesoughttogainabetterunderstandingofthecellularmechanicsunderlyinghighproductivityinHek293cells.Therefore,wehavecomparedastableHek293celllineproducingaheavychainvariableregionfusedtotheFcregionofahumanIgG(dAb-Fc),