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PROVIDER: PRJNA385175 | ENA |
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Project description:Creating Saccharomyces yeasts capable of efficient fermentation of pentoses such as xylose remains a key challenge in the production of ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass. Metabolic engineering of industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains has yielded xylose-fermenting strains, but these strains have not yet achieved industrial viability due largely to xylose fermentation being prohibitively slower than that of glucose. Recently, it has been shown that naturally occurring xylose-utilizing Saccharomyces species exist. Uncovering the genetic architecture of such strains will shed further light on xylose metabolism, suggesting additional engineering approaches or possibly even the development of xylose-fermenting yeasts that are not genetically modified. We previously identified a hybrid yeast strain, the genome of which is largely Saccharomyces uvarum, which has the ability to grow on xylose as the sole carbon source. Despite the sterility of this hybrid strain, we were able to develop novel methods to genetically characterize its xylose utilization phenotype, using bulk segregant analysis in conjunction with high-throughput sequencing. We found that its growth in xylose is governed by at least two genetic loci: one of the loci maps to a known xylose-pathway gene, a novel allele of the aldo-keto reductase gene GRE3, while a second locus maps to an allele of APJ1, a chaperonin gene not previously connected to xylose metabolism. Our work demonstrates that the power of sequencing combined with bulk segregant analysis can also be applied to a non-genetically-tractable hybrid strain that contains a complex, polygenic trait, and it identifies new avenues for metabolic engineering as well as for construction of non-genetically modified xylose-fermenting strains.
2012-07-19 | GSE35528 | GEO
Project description:The main objective is to improve xylose fermentation by deletion of PHO80 gene in recombinant xylose-fermenting yeast strains. Microarray analysis was performed to investigate effects of PHO80 deletion on the gene expression profile of xylose-fermenting strains.
2013-04-24 | GSE46309 | GEO
Project description:The main objective is to improve xylose fermentation by deletion of PHO80 gene in recombinant xylose-fermenting yeast strains. Microarray analysis was performed to investigate effects of PHO80 deletion on the gene expression profile of xylose-fermenting strains. Samples for 2 strains (wild-type control, PHO80-deleted strain) were taken after 6h of xylose fermentation. Each sample was triplicated, resulting in a total of 6 samples.
2013-04-24 | E-GEOD-46309 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:The main objective is to improve xylose fermentation by deletion of PHO13 gene in Xylose isomerase (XI) harboring yeast strains. Microarray analysis was performed to investigate effects of PHO13 deletion on the gene expression prolife of xylose-fermenting strains.
2015-10-08 | GSE73814 | GEO
Project description:Xylose-utilizing yeasts with tolerances to fermentation inhibitors (such as weak organic acids) and high temperature are needed for cost-effective simultaneous saccharification and co-fermentation (SSCF) of lignocellulosic materials. We constructed a novel xylose-assimilating Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain with improved fermentation performance under heat and acid co-stress using the genome shuffling technique. Two xylose-utilizing diploid yeasts with different genetic backgrounds were used as the parental strains for genome shuffling. The hybrid strain Hyb-8 showed significantly higher xylose fermentation ability than both parental strains (Sun049T-Z and Sun224T-K) under co-stress conditions of heat and acids. To screen for genes that might be important for fermentation under heat and acid co-stress, a transcriptomic analysis of hybrid strain Hyb-8 and its parental strains was performed.
2017-07-25 | GSE101786 | GEO
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE24853: Expression analysis of Spathaspora passalidarum NRRL Y-27907 grown in glucose or xylose GSE24854: Expression analysis of Pichia stipitis CBS 6054 grown in glucose or xylose GSE24855: Expression analysis of Lodderomyces elongisporus NRRL YB-4239 grown in glucose or xylose GSE24856: Expression analysis of Candida tenuis NRRL Y-1498 grown in glucose or xylose GSE24857: Expression analysis of Candida albicans WO-1 grown in glucose or xylose Refer to individual Series
2011-10-19 | E-GEOD-24858 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Though highly efficient at fermenting hexose sugars, the ethanologenic yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has limited ability to ferment five-carbon sugars. As a significant portion of sugars found in cellulosic biomasses is the five carbon sugar xylose, S. cerevisiae must be engineered to metabolize pentose sugars. Here we combined classical candidate gene approach with systems biology to develop xylose-utilising S. cerevisiae strains. The introduction of an exogenous xylose isomerase (XYLA) and an additional copy of the endogenous xylulokinase gene (XKS1) results in the significant improvement of xylose consumption. Microarray studies reveal that the introduction of XYLA and XKS1 results in the dramatic transcriptional remodelling of the cell under both glucose and xylose conditions. To further investigate the cellular processes impacted by the introduction of XYLA and XKS1, using genome-wide chemical and synthetic lethal screens we identified greater than 40 deletion mutants that impact xylose utilization. We identified four genes, ALP1, ISC1, RPL20B and BUD21, that when individually deleted allow S. cerevisiae to utilize xylose as the sole carbon source. When these mutants are combined with XYLA and XKS1, it results in strains with significant improvement in xylose consumption. We have demonstrated that systems biology techniques combined with candidate gene approaches can successfully lead to novel genetic strategies for the improvement of xylose utilization
2012-07-15 | GSE27325 | GEO
Project description:xylose fermenting yeast for ethanol production
| PRJNA827654 | ENA