Journal
BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 77, Issue 7, Pages 1505-1510Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.130173
Keywords
thermotolerant yeast; sugar utilization; ethanol production; lignocellulose
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The yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus is considered as a potential alternative to Saccharomyces cerevisiae in producing ethanol as a biofuel. In this study, we investigated the ethanol fermentation properties of novel K marxianus strain DMB1, isolated from bagasse hydrolysates. This strain utilized sorbitol as well as various pentoses and hexoses as single carbon sources under aerobic conditions and produced ethanol from glucose in hydrolysates of the Japanese cedar at 42 degrees C. Reference strains K marxianus NBRC1777 and S. cerevisiae BY4743 did not assimilate sorbitol or ferment lignocellulosic hydrolysates to ethanol at this temperature. Thus strain DMB1 appears to be optimal for producing bioethanol at high temperatures, and might provide a valuable means of increasing the efficiency of ethanol fermentation.
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