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Systematic optimization of gene expression of pentose phosphate pathway enhances ethanol production from a glucose/xylose mixed medium in a recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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Systematic optimization of gene expression of pentose phosphate pathway enhances ethanol production from a glucose/xylose mixed medium in a recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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AMB Express, August 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13568-018-0670-8
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Yosuke Kobayashi, Takehiko Sahara, Satoru Ohgiya, Yoichi Kamagata, Kazuhiro E. Fujimori

Abstract

The pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) plays an important role in the synthesis of ribonucleotides and aromatic amino acids. During bioethanol production from cellulosic biomass composed mainly of D-glucose and D-xylose, the PPP is also involved in xylose metabolism by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Although the activities and thermostabilities of the four PPP enzymes (transaldolase: TAL1, transketolase: TKL1, ribose-5-phosphate ketol-isomerase: RKI1 and D-ribulose-5-phosphate 3-epimerase: RPE1) can affect the efficiency of cellulosic ethanol production at high temperatures, little is known about the suitable expression levels of these PPP genes. Here, we overexpressed PPP genes from S. cerevisiae and the thermotolerant yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus either singly or in combination in recombinant yeast strains harboring a mutant of xylose isomerase (XI) and evaluated xylose consumption and ethanol production of these yeast transformants in glucose/xylose mixed media at 36 °C. Among the PPP genes examined, we found that: (1) strains that overexpressed S. cerevisiae TKL1 exhibited the highest rate of xylose consumption relative to strains that overexpressed other PPP genes alone; (2) overexpression of RKI1 and TAL1 derived from K. marxianus with S. cerevisiae TKL1 increased the xylose consumption rate by 1.87-fold at 24 h relative to the control strain (from 0.55 to 1.03 g/L/h); (3) the strains with XI showed higher ethanol yield than strains with xylose reductase and xylitol dehydrogenase and (4) PHO13 disruption did not improve xylose assimilation under the experimental conditions. Together these results indicated that optimization of PPP activity improves xylose metabolism in genetically engineered yeast strains, which could be useful for commercial production of ethanol from cellulosic material.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 15%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Student > Master 6 9%
Researcher 5 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 7%
Other 10 15%
Unknown 22 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 21 31%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 16%
Chemical Engineering 2 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Environmental Science 1 1%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 24 36%
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