Procedure for obtaining bovine chymosin (rennin), curd

摘要

A procedure for obtaining curd (bovine rennin) by the expression, not of the sequencing of its natural gene, but of an artificial gene, synthetic and optimised following certain rules of use of triplets in DNA, is described. Preferably, this expression is made with filamentous fungi, especially with GRAS status, and particularly Aspergillus niger, awamori variant. The synthesis of optimised genes for filamentous fungi, carried out here for the first time for chymosin, allows us to obtain high levels of expression, which means that the procedure is useful for the industrial production of this valuable protein. Chymosin is obtained extra-cellularly, using a plasmid with a fungal secretion signal, thus allowing for its purification by the supernatants from the growth of this fungus, for use in the food industry.