Sugar metabolism, redox balance and oxidative stress response in the respiratory yeast Kluyveromyces lactis.

ABSTRACT: A lot of studies have been carried out on Saccharomyces cerevisiae, an yeast with a predominant fermentative metabolism under aerobic conditions, which allows exploring the complex response induced by oxidative stress. S. cerevisiae is considered a eukaryote model for these studies. We propose Kluyveromyces lactis as a good alternative model to analyse variants in the oxidative stress response, since the respiratory metabolism in this yeast is predominant under aerobic conditions and it shows other important differences with S. cerevisiae in catabolic repression and carbohydrate utilization. The knowledge of oxidative stress response in K. lactis is still a developing field. In this article, we summarize the state of the art derived from experimental approaches and we provide a global visi

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez-Siso MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2754438 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature