The invention relates to a large-scale serum-free culture method for rhIL-12
engineering cells, which comprises the following step of: inoculating rhIL-12
engineering cells in a logarithmic phase into a serum-free and
protein-
free medium for culture, wherein the medium is a CD CHO
liquid medium comprising
sodium pyruvate at the final concentration of 0.8 to 1.2mM,
hypoxanthine at the final concentration of 0.075 to 0.125mM,
thymidine at the final concentration of 0.012 to 0.020mM,
adenosine at the final concentration of 0.5 to 0.9mg / L,
guanosine at the final concentration of 0.5 to 0.9mg / L,
cytidine at the final concentration of 0.5 to 0.9mg / L,
uridine at the final concentration of 0.5 to 0.9mg / L, L-
glutamine at the final concentration of 0.4 to 0.8mg / L, L-
asparagine at the final concentration of 0.4 to 0.8mg / L, L-
proline at the final concentration of 1.5 to 2.0mg / L and non-
essential amino acid at the final concentration of 0.08 to 0.125mM. The invention also provides a medium used in the method. By the medium and the culture method, a high-yield and high-activity recombinant human
interleukin-12 can be obtained.