Limitations in xylose-fermenting saccharomyces cerevisiae, made evident through comprehensive metabolite profiling and thermodynamic analysis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 7566-7574

  Klimacek, Mario ^a,b   Krahulec, Stefan ^a   Sauer, Uwe ^b   Nidetzky, Bernd ^a,c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c AUSTRIAN CENTRE OF INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES; GLYCOLYTIC METABOLITES; INTRACELLULAR POOL; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY/TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE PROFILING; METABOLIZE XYLOSE; METABOLOMES; METABOLOMICS; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY; RATE LIMIT; REDOX METABOLISM; S.CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE STRAINS; THERMO DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; WILD-TYPE STRAIN; XYLOSE REDUCTASE; XYLOSE UTILIZATIONS; XYLULOSE;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOMOLECULES; CATALYSTS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYMES; GLUCOSE; LAKES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; SUGAR SUBSTITUTES; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; YEAST;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; CARBON; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; XYLOSE; XYLULOKINASE; XYLULOSE REDUCTASE;

AMINO ACID; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; RECOMBINATION; SUGAR; THERMODYNAMICS; YEAST;

ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; METABOLOMICS; METHODOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STAINING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; D-XYLULOSE REDUCTASE; FERMENTATION; METABOLOMICS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STAINING AND LABELING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS; XYLOSE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 78649701348     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01787-10     Document Type: Article

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