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

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 re

SUBMITTER: Kobayashi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6111014 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature