Journal
FEMS YEAST RESEARCH
Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foz015
Keywords
genome shuffling; adaptive evolution; thermotolerance; Spathaspora passalidarum; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; genome resequencing
Funding
- National Science Foundation of China [31470214, 31700077]
- National Science Foundation of Tianjin [16JCYBJC43100]
- Science and Technology Support Program of Tianjin, China [15PTCYSY00020]
- Science and Technology Foundation for Selected Overseas Chinese Scholar of Tianjin
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Enhanced capability of co-fermenting glucose and xylose at high temperature is highly desirable for yeast application in second-generation bioethanol production. Here, we obtained hybrid strains with improved glucose-xylose co-fermentation properties at high temperature by combining genome shuffling and adaptive evolution. Genome resequencing of these strains suggested predominantly inherited genetic information from one parental strain Spathaspora passalidarum SP rather than the other parental strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae ScY01, possibly due to that the CUG codon system of S. passalidarum might have systematically eliminated most of the functional proteins from S. cerevisiae through misfolding. Compared to SP, one-copy loss of a 146-kb fragment was found in the hybrid strain and regained after being evolved for a while, whereas one-copy loss of an 11-kb fragment was only found after being evolved for a longer time. Besides, the genes affected by nonsynonymous variants were also identified, especially the mutation S540F in the endoplasmic reticulum chaperon Kar2. Structural prediction indicated that S540F might change the substrate binding activity of Kar2, and thus play a role in preventing protein aggregation in yeast at high temperature. Our results illustrated genomic alterations during this process and revealed some genomic factors that might be involved to determine yeast thermotolerance.
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