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HEREDITAS(Beijing) ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (2): 183-191.doi: 10.16288/j.yczz.14-206

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Construction of yeast strains expressing long-acting glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and their therapeutic effects on type 2 diabetes mellitus mouse model

Ri Wu1,Chao Ma1,Xiaodan Li1,Huikun Duan1,Yanli Ji1,Yu Wang1,Pingzhe Jiang1,Haisong Wang1,Peipei Tu1,Miao Li1,Ganggang Ni1,Baicheng Ma2,Minggang Li1   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory for Bioactive Materials of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China;
    2. Tianjin Children’s Hospital, Tianjin 300074, China
  • Received:2014-06-25 Online:2015-02-20 Published:2015-01-19

Abstract: Probiotics, i.e., bacteria expressing therapeutic peptides (protein), are used as a new type of orally administrated biologic drugs to treat diseases. To develop yeast strains which could effectively prevent and treat type 2 diabetes mellitus, we firstly constructed the yeast integrating plasmid pNK1-PGK which could successfully express green fluorescent protein (GFP) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The gene encoding ten tandem repeats of glucagon-like peptide-1(10×GLP-1) was cloned into the vector pNK1-PGK and the resulting plasmids were then transformed into the S. cerevisiae INVSc1. The long-acting GLP-1 hypoglycemic yeast (LHY) which grows rapidly and expresses 10×GLP-1 stably was selected by nutrition screening and Western blotting. The amount of 10×GLP-1 produced by LHY reached 1.56 mg per gram of wet cells. Moreover, the oral administration of LHY significantly reduced blood glucose level in type 2 diabetic mice induced by streptozotocin plus high fat and high sugar diet.

Key words: type 2 diabetes mellitus, glucagon-like peptide-1(GLP-1), long-acting GLP-1 hypoglycemic yeast (LHY), recombinant yeast, mouse model of type 2 diabetes mellitus