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BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 503-508Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-007-9573-5
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Betaine; desiccation; E. coli; lactate; osmotic stress; trehalose
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Survival after desiccation was highest for recombinant strains of E. coli engineered to produce ethanol (KO11 and LY163) and lactate (TG106) when sucrose was provided as the fermentable sugar. Desiccation tolerance was lower with glucose and xylose. Further improvements in desiccation tolerance with sucrose were obtained by combining this with increased expression of otsBA genes encoding trehalose biosynthesis, removal of products from metabolism by resuspending in fresh medium, and harvesting cells prior to the end of log phase. With sucrose and otsBA expression, survivals of 20%-80% were readily achieved. Fermentation tests with EM2L, a derivative of LY163 expressing ostBA, demonstrated that ethanol production from seed fermentations begun with desiccated cells is equivalent to that of an undesiccated control.
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