Abstract
In a previously engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae recombinant, the cellobiose fermentation rate was significantly lower than the glucose fermentation rate. Thus, we implemented a genome-wide perturbation library to find gene targets for improving the cellobiose fermentation capability of the yeast strain. Unexpectedly, we discovered a transformant that contained an additional β-glucosidase gene (gh1-1), possibly through homologous recombination between the plasmids. The additional β-glucosidase led to the fastest cellobiose fermentation activity among all the transformants evaluated, and the strain demonstrated significantly higher β-glucosidase activity than the control strain, especially during the initial exponential growth phase. The present work revealed the benefit of the extra gh1-1 copy for efficient cellobiose fermentation in the engineered S. cerevisiae strain.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 367 |
Journal | 3 Biotech |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 1 2019 |
Keywords
- Cellobiose fermentation
- Genome-wide overexpression library
- Gh1-1
- Homologous recombination
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biotechnology
- Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)