Use case

Industrial enzyme expression in Pichia

Design Pichia expression constructs for industrial enzymes with cited evidence, ranked CDS panels, and secretion strategies.

The problem

Where it hurts.

Industrial enzymes — cellulases, lipases, phytases — require high secreted yields in Pichia. The design space is enormous: codon usage, signal peptide choice, promoter strength, copy number. Teams spend weeks iterating on constructs that fail at the wet-lab stage because of design flaws visible in silico: poor codon adaptation, unfavorable Kozak context, or signal-peptide mismatches.

How Kairos helps

Dry-lab design, cited.

Kairos retrieves cited evidence for your target enzyme, generates a ranked CDS panel optimized for Pichia codon usage, evaluates secretion-leader candidates (α-MF, SUC2, native), and checks each construct for synthesis safety, translation initiation, and developability flags. Every score is deterministic and re-runnable — you see exactly why one candidate ranks above another.

Honesty boundary: Kairos ranks dry-lab design quality. It does not predict expression level or titer. The output is a design recommendation grounded in directional evidence.

Cited evidence landscape

Literature and patent evidence retrieved for your enzyme class — every claim traceable to its source.

Ranked CDS panel

Pareto-ranked candidates with host-fidelity scores — codon rhythm matched to K. phaffii, not naive max-CAI.

Construct checks

Synthesis safety, 5′ translation initiation, and developability flags — before you spend on synthesis.

Worked example

See it in action.

Cytochrome c Pichia expression worked example →

Bring one enzyme. Leave with a ranked panel.

Minutes, not weeks. Every construct scored, every claim cited, every limit stated.