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We have optimized the codons in an immunoglobulin kappa chain gene to those preferred in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The mutant and wild type kappa chain genes were each fused with a synthetic invertase signal peptide that also contained only yeast–preferred codons, and expressed in the F762 yeast strain. The use of yeast–preferred codons resulted in a more than 5–fold increase in the rate of synthesis and at least a 50–fold increase in the steady state level of protein.
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Kotula, L., Curtis, P. Evaluation of Foreign Gene Codon Optimization in Yeast: Expression of a Mouse IG Kappa Chain. Nat Biotechnol 9, 1386–1389 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1291-1386
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