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Isolation of Alveolar Type II Epithelial Cells from Neonatal, Juvenile, and Adult Murine Lungs Adaptable to Infectious Experimental Settings

Alveolar type II epithelial cells (AECII) critically contribute to immune regulation in the lung and thus are key elements orchestrating pulmonary ...

Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

High costs and low availability of UDP-galactose hampers the enzymatic synthesis of valuable oligosaccharides such as human milk oligosaccharides. Here, we report the development of a platform for the scalable, biocatalytic synthesis and purification of UDP-galactose. UDP-galactose was produced with a titer of 48 mM (27.2 g/L) in a small-scale batch process (200 μL) within 24 h using 0.02 g /g . Through in-situ ATP regeneration, the amount of ATP (0.6 mM) supplemented was around 240-fold lower than the stoichiometric equivalent required to achieve the final product yield. Chromatographic purification using porous graphic carbon adsorbent yielded UDP-galactose with a purity of 92 %. The synthesis was transferred to 1 L preparative scale production in a stirred tank bioreactor. To further reduce the synthesis costs here, the supernatant of cell lysates was used bypassing expensive purification of enzymes. Here, 23.4 g/L UDP-galactose were produced within 23 h with a synthesis yield of 71 % and a biocatalyst load of 0.05 g /g . The costs for substrates per gram of UDP-galactose synthesized were around 0.26 €/g.

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