Journal
BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 37, Issue 10, Pages 1973-1982Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-015-1893-2
Keywords
Bioethanol; Fermentation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Scheffersomyces stipitis; Sugar transporter; Xylose
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- CNPq [490029/2009-4, 551392/2010-0, 307290/2012-3, 478841/2013-2]
- FINEP [01.09.0566.00/1421-08]
- FAPESC [17293/2009-6]
- Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
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An hxt-null S. cerevisiae strain, lacking the major hexose transporters (hxt1 Delta-hxt7 Delta and gal2 Delta) but having high xylose reductase, xylitol dehydrogenase and xylulokinase activities, was transformed with a genomic DNA library from S. stipitis. Four plasmids allowing growth on xylose contained three genes encoding sugar transporters: the previously characterized XUT1 permease, and two new genes (HXT2.6 and QUP2) not previously identified as xylose transporters. High cell density fermentations with the recombinant strains showed that the XUT1 gene allowed ethanol production from xylose or xylose plus glucose as carbon sources, while the HXT2.6 permease produced both ethanol and xylitol, and the strain expressing the QUP2 gene produced mainly xylitol during xylose consumption. Cloning novel sugar transporters not previously identified in the S. stipitis genome using an hxt-null S. cerevisiae strain with a high xylose-utilizing pathway provides novel promising target genes for improved lignocellulosic ethanol production by yeasts.
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