Engineering topology and kinetics of sucrose metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for improved ethanol yield

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 694-703

  Basso, Thiago O ^a,b   de Kok, Stefan ^a   Dario, Marcelo ^b,c   do Espirito Santo, Júlio Cézar A ^c   Müller, Gabriela ^c   Schlölg, Paulo S ^c   Silva, Carlos P ^c   Tonso, Aldo ^b   Daran, Jean Marc ^a   Gombert, Andreas K ^b   van Maris, Antonius J A ^a   Pronk, Jack T ^a   Stambuk, Boris U ^b,c  

^a KLUYVER CENTRE FOR GENOMICS OF INDUSTRIAL FERMENTATION   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

AGT1; Bioethanol; Disaccharide metabolism; Evolutionary engineering; SUC2; Yeast

Indexed keywords

AGT1; ANAEROBIC CULTURES; ATTRACTIVE STRATEGIES; BIO-ETHANOL PRODUCTION; CARBON SOURCE; CHEMOSTAT CULTURE; CODING SEQUENCES; CYTOSOLIC LOCALIZATION; DISACCHARIDE METABOLISM; ENERGY COST; ETHANOL YIELD; EVOLUTIONARY ENGINEERING; EXTRACELLULAR; GROWTH CHARACTERISTIC; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSS; ISOFORMS; REFERENCE STRAINS; S.CEREVISIAE; SUC2; SUCROSE CONCENTRATION; SUCROSE HYDROLYSIS; SYMPORTS; TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSIS;

BIOETHANOL; CELL CULTURE; CHEMOSTATS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ETHANOL; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTONS; STRAIN; TOPOLOGY; YEAST;

SUGAR (SUCROSE);

ALCOHOL; BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; DISACCHARIDE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MALTOSE; PROTEIN AGT1; PROTEIN SUC2; SUCROSE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHEMOSTAT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYTOSOL; ENERGY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTON TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ETHANOL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SUCROSE; SYMPORTERS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 80555149396     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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