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JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 252, Issue -, Pages 65-72Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2017.04.024
Keywords
Vanillin; Furfural; 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural; Translation repression; Lignocellulosic biomass; ADH7
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [26292039, 151(0737, 20260614, 15J08781]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15J08781, 26292039] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Lignocellulosic biomass conversion inhibitors such as vanillin, furfural, and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) inhibit the growth of and fermentation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A high concentration of each fermentation inhibitor represses translation and increases non-translated mRNAs. We previously reported that the mRNAs of ADH7 and BDH2, which encode putative NADPH- and NADH-dependent alcohol dehydrogenases, respectively, were efficiently translated even with translation repression in response to severe vanillin stress. However, the combined effects of-these fermentation inhibitors on the expression of ADH7 and BDH2 remain unclear. We herein demonstrated that exposure to a combined stress of vanillin, furfural, and HMF repressed translation. The protein synthesis of Adh7, but not Bdh2 was significantly induced under combined stress conditions, even though the mRNA levels of ADH7 and BDH2 were up-regulated. Additionally, adh7A cells were more sensitive to the combined stress than wild-type and bdh2A cells. These results suggest that induction of the ADH7 expression plays a role in the tolerance to the combined stress of vanillin, furfural, and HMF. Furthermore, we succeeded in improving yeast tolerance to the combined stress by controlling the expression of ALD6 with the ADH7 promoter. Our results demonstrate that the ADH7 promoter can overcome the pronounced translation repression caused by the combined stress of vanillin, furfural, and HMF, and also suggest a new gene engineering strategy to breed robust and optimized yeasts for bioethanol production from a lignocellulosic biomass.
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