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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Saccharomyces cerevisiae
SUBMITTER: Gavin Sherlock
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-19116 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Wenger Jared W JW Schwartz Katja K Sherlock Gavin G
PLoS genetics 20100513 5
Fermentation of xylose is a fundamental requirement for the efficient production of ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass sources. Although they aggressively ferment hexoses, it has long been thought that native Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains cannot grow fermentatively or non-fermentatively on xylose. Population surveys have uncovered a few naturally occurring strains that are weakly xylose-positive, and some S. cerevisiae have been genetically engineered to ferment xylose, but no strain, eithe ...[more]