Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 107, Issue 6, Pages 636-640Publisher
SOC BIOSCIENCE BIOENGINEERING JAPAN
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2009.01.014
Keywords
Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Sake brewing; Ubiquitin; ubi4; Yeast
Funding
- Promotion of Basic Research Activities for Innovative Biosciences (PROBRAIN)
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Sake yeast can produce high levels of ethanol in concentrated rice mash. While both sake and laboratory yeast strains belong to the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the laboratory strains produce much less ethanol. This disparity in fermentation activity may be due to the strains' different responses to environmental stresses, including ethanol accumulation. To obtain more insight into the stress response of yeast cells under sake brewing conditions, we carried out small-scale sake brewing tests using laboratory yeast strains disrupted in specific stress-related genes. Surprisingly, yeast strains with disrupted ubiquitin-related genes produced more ethanol than the parental strain during sake brewing. The elevated fermentation ability conferred by disruption of the ubiquitin-coding gene UBI4 was confined to laboratory strains, and the ubi4 disruptant of a sake yeast strain did not demonstrate a comparable increase in ethanol production. These findings suggest different roles for ubiquitin in sake and laboratory yeast strains. (C) 2009, The Society for Biotechnology, Japan. All rights reserved.
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