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Perfusion-microcarrier cultivation of rCHO-cells in serum-free medium for production of human renin

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A recombinant CHO cell line producing human prorenin was cultivated on microcarriers in serum-free medium. Best growth was obtained when the cells were cultivated on a collagen coated microcarrier (Cytodex 3) using a serum-free medium (SF-02) supplemented with fibronectin. It was possible to reduce the necessary concentration of fibronectin in the feed medium from 10 μg/cm3 to 2 μg/cm3 during perfusion cultures in a spinner reactor equipped with an UF-membrane. Also in this system, the prorenin concentration increased up to 8 times higher compared to that in a conventional repeated-batch culture. The cells grew in multilayers on the microcarriers during the perfusion culture. The specific prorenin productivity was not significantly affected by the cell growth rate, and the secretion of prorenin continued even after the cells had ceased to grow.

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Pörtner, R., Matsumura, M., Hatae, T. et al. Perfusion-microcarrier cultivation of rCHO-cells in serum-free medium for production of human renin. Bioprocess Engineering 7, 63–69 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00383580

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