Development of a method to produce hemoglobin in a bioreactor culture of Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) transformed with a plasmid containing Plesiomonas shigelloides heme transport genes and modified human hemoglobin genes.

ABSTRACT

We describe a method for production of recombinant human hemoglobin by Escherichia coli grown in a bioreactor. E. coli BL21(DE3) transformed with a plasmid containing hemoglobin genes and Plesiomonas shigelloides heme transport genes reached a cell dry weight of 83.64 g/liter and produced 11.92 g/liter of hemoglobin in clarified lysates.