Project description:Transcriptional profiling of adapted tolerant industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae NRRL Y-50049 compared with its parental wild type NRRL Y-12632 in response to challenge of furfural and HMF each at 20 mM. Y-50049 is able to detoxify toxic furan aldehydes in situ while produce ethanol. Under the same conditions, the wild type Y-12632 was repressed and unable to grow and function.
Project description:Adapted tolerant yeast strain Y-50049 is able to in situ detoxify furfural and HMF while the wild type control Y-12632 repressed to loss function under challenges of 20 mM each of furfural and HMF
Project description:Adapted tolerant yeast strain Y-50049 is able to in situ detoxify furfural and HMF while the wild type control Y-12632 repressed to loss function under challenges of 20 mM each of furfural and HMF A time course study during the lag phase with cells harvested at 18, 24, 28, and 42 h after 20 mM furfural and 20 mM HMF treatment
Project description:The inhibitors hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and furfural were added to the feed-medium of carbon-limited anaerobic chemostat cultures. Samples were taken for transcriptome analysis at steady-state from cultures with inhibitors and without inhibitors.
Project description:HMF and furfural were pulse added to xylose-utilizing Saccharomyces cerevisiae during either the glucose consumption phase or the xylose consumption phase. Transcriptome samples were collected before and one hour after pulsing of inhibitors.
Project description:The inhibitors hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and furfural were added to the feed-medium of carbon-limited anaerobic chemostat cultures. Samples were taken for transcriptome analysis at steady-state from cultures with inhibitors and without inhibitors. Three biological replicates from each condition (inhibitors, no inhibitors) were analyzed.
Project description:HMF and furfural were pulse added to xylose-utilizing Saccharomyces cerevisiae during either the glucose consumption phase or the xylose consumption phase. Transcriptome samples were collected before and one hour after pulsing of inhibitors. Three biological replicates from each conditions analyzed.
Project description:Cellular tolerance toward furfural is a complex phenotype involved many genes, and hard to be improved by manipulating individual genes. We previously established exogenous global regulator IrrE mutants that confer Escherichia coli with significantly enhanced tolerance to furfural stress. In order to elucidate the mechanism for enhancement of furfural tolerance in the mutants and to identify new genes and pathways that can be possible targets for engineering of furfural tolerance, we carried out comparative transcriptomic with the representative strains F1-37 and WT (harboring the furfural-tolerant mutant F1-37 of IrrE and the wild type IrrE, respectively). The data from transcriptome analyses were deposited here.
Project description:Cellular tolerance toward furfural is a complex phenotype involved many genes, and hard to be improved by manipulating individual genes. We previously established exogenous global regulator IrrE mutants that confer Escherichia coli with significantly enhanced tolerance to furfural stress. In order to elucidate the mechanism for enhancement of furfural tolerance in the mutants and to identify new genes and pathways that can be possible targets for engineering of furfural tolerance, we carried out comparative transcriptomic with the representative strains F1-37 and WT (harboring the furfural-tolerant mutant F1-37 of IrrE and the wild type IrrE, respectively). The data from transcriptome analyses were deposited here. Cells of furfural-tolerant mutant F1-37 and wild-type strain WT were grown in LB medium supplemented with furfural, and the cells were harvested in the exponential phase. The samples for both of these two strains were prepared in triplicate with biological replicates.
Project description:Resistance of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to high furfural concentration is based on NADPH-dependent reduction by at least two oxireductases. Biofuels derived from lignocellulosic biomass hold promises for a sustainable fuel economy, but several problems hamper their economical feasibility. One important problem is the presence of toxic compounds in processed lignocellulosic hydrolysates with furfural as a key toxin. While Saccharomyces cerevisiae has some intrinsic ability to reduce furfural to the less toxic furfuryl alcohol, higher resistance is necessary for process conditions. By comparing an evolved, furfural resistant strain and its parent in micro-aerobic, glucose-limited chemostats at increasing furfural challenge, we elucidate key mechanism and the molecular basis of both natural and high-level furfural resistance. At lower furfural concentrations, NADH-dependent oxireductases are the main defence mechanism. At concentrations above 15 mM, however, [1-13C]-flux and global array-based transcript analysis demonstrated that the NADPH-generating flux through pentose-phosphate pathway increases and that NADPH-dependent oxireductases became the major resistance mechanism. The transcript analysis further revealed that iron transmembrane transport is up-regulated in response to furfural. While these responses occur in both strains, high-level resistance in the evolved strain was based on strong induction of ADH7, the uncharacterised ORF YKL071W and 4 further, likely NADPH-dependent oxireductases. By overexpressing the ADH7 gene and the ORF YKL071W, we inverse engineered significantly increased furfural resistance in the parent strain, thereby demonstrating these two enzymes to be key elements of the resistance phenotype. Experiment Overall Design: RNA levels were measured in glucose limited, micro-aerobic chemostat cultures with different concentrations of the growth inhibitor furfural. Two strains were compared: TMB3400-FT30-3 is a strain that has been evolutionary adapted to withstand high furfural concentrations. TMB3400 is its less resistant parent. Number of biological replicates: 2-3.