Kinetic modelling reveals current limitations in the production of ethanol from xylose by recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 508-517

  Parachin, Nádia Skorupa ^a   Bergdahl, Basti ^a   van Niel, Ed W J ^a   Gorwa Grauslund, Marie F ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Kinetic model; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Xylitol; Xylose; Xylulokinase

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC GROWTH; ALDOSE REDUCTASE; ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; CATABOLIC PATHWAY; CONTROL STRAIN; CURRENT LIMITATION; ENCODING GENES; IN-SILICO; INTERMEDIA; KINETIC MODEL; KINETIC MODELLING; KINETIC MODELS; NON-OXIDATIVE; OVER-EXPRESSION; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY; PREDICTION TOOLS; S.CEREVISIAE; TRANSPORTER GENES; XYLITOL; XYLOSE ISOMERASE; XYLOSE REDUCTASE; XYLOSE TRANSPORT; XYLULOKINASE; XYLULOSE;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHANOL; GENE ENCODING; KINETIC THEORY; KINETICS; PHOSPHORYLATION; STRAIN; SUGAR SUBSTITUTES; SUGARS;

YEAST;

ALCOHOL; NADPH DEPENDENT ALDOSE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLITOL; XYLOSE; XYLOSE ISOMERASE; XYLULOKINASE;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA INTERMEDIA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CANDIDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ETHANOL; GENE EXPRESSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; XYLOSE;

CANDIDA INTERMEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 80052037221     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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