“…This yeast is generally recognized as a safe micro-organism (GRAS), lacking endotoxins and lytic viruses, being able to perform many post-translational modifications, including glycosylation, acylation and folding of proteins (Alberghina et al, 1991). S. cerevisiae has been used as a host micro-organism to produce different heterologous proteins such as β-galactosidase (Cheng et al, 1997), glucoamylase (Hardjito et al, 1993), α-2,6(N)-sialyltransferase (Borsig et al, 1995), antithrombotic hirudin (Kim et al, 2003), sporamin (Chen et al, 2003), Closterium sex pheromone (Sekimoto, 2002), cutinase (Calado et al, 2002), Rhizopus oryzae lipase (Ueda et al, 2002), capsid proteins of human polyomaviruses BK and JC (Hale et al, 2002), human interleukin-18 (Lim et al, 2002), α 1 -antitrypsin (Tamer and Chisti, 2001), human XPA and XRCC1 DNA repair proteins (Pushnova et al, 2001), Aspergillus ficuum endoinulinase (Park et al, 2001).…”