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METABOLIC ENGINEERING
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 49-59出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2010.11.003
关键词
Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase; NADP(+)-dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase; Glycerol production; Ethanol yield; Osmotic stress tolerance
资金
- Natural Science Foundation of China [20706024]
- 863'' Program [2006AA020101, 2007AA10Z359]
- Innovative Research Team of Jiangsu Province
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [200801361]
To synthesize glycerol, a major by-product during anaerobic production of ethanol, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae would consume up to 4% of the sugar feed stock in typical industrial ethanol processes. The present study was dedicated to decreasing the glycerol production mostly in industrial ethanol producing yeast without affecting its desirable fermentation properties including high osmotic and ethanol tolerance, natural robustness in industrial processes. In the present study, the GPD1 gene, encoding NAD(+)-dependent glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in an industrial ethanol producing strain of S. cerevisiae, was deleted. Simultaneously, anon-phosphorylating NADP(+)-dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPN) from Bacillus cereus was expressed in the mutant deletion of GPD1. Although the resultant strain AG1A (gpd1 Delta P-PGK-gapN) exhibited a 48.7 +/- 0.3% (relative to the amount of substrate consumed) lower glycerol yield and a 7.6 +/- 0.1% (relative to the amount of substrate consumed) higher ethanol yield compared to the wild-type strain, it was sensitive to osmotic stress and failed to ferment on 25% glucose. However, when trehalose synthesis genes TPS1 and TPS2 were over-expressed in the above recombinant strain AG1A, its high osmotic stress tolerance was not only restored but also improved. In addition, this new recombinant yeast strain displayed further reduced glycerol yield, in distinguishable maximum specific growth rate (mu(max)) and fermentation ability compared to the wild type in anaerobic batch fermentations. This study provides a promising strategy to improve ethanol yields by minimization of glycerol production. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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