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JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 139-147Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10295-008-0481-z
Keywords
Ethanol production; Genome shuffling; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Thermotolerance
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- Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [20776115, 20576100]
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Genome shuffling is a powerful strategy for rapid engineering of microbial strains for desirable industrial phenotypes. Here we improved the thermotolerance and ethanol tolerance of an industrial yeast strain SM-3 by genome shuffling while simultaneously enhancing the ethanol productivity. The starting population was generated by protoplast ultraviolet irradiation and then subjected for the recursive protoplast fusion. The positive colonies from the library, created by fusing the inactivated protoplasts were screened for growth at 35, 40, 45, 50 and 55A degrees C on YPD-agar plates containing different concentrations of ethanol. Characterization of all mutants and wild-type strain in the shake-flask indicated the compatibility of three phenotypes of thermotolerance, ethanol tolerance and ethanol yields enhancement. After three rounds of genome shuffling, the best performing strain, F34, which could grow on plate cultures up to 55A degrees C, was obtained. It was found capable of completely utilizing 20% (w/v) glucose at 45-48A degrees C, producing 9.95% (w/v) ethanol, and tolerating 25% (v/v) ethanol stress.
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