Abstract
Anaerobic xylose conversion by two metabolically engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains in the presence and absence of simultaneous glucose metabolism was investigated. One strain expressed XYL1 encoding xylose reductase (XR) and XYL2 encoding xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH) from Pichia stipitis, whereas the other additionally overexpressed TAL1 encoding transaldolase (TAL). Both strains formed xylitol as the main product of xylose metabolism. The TAL1-overexpressing strain gave a higher biomass yield and produced less carbon dioxide and somewhat less xylitol compared with the XYL1 + XYL2 strain, indicating that TAL limited xylose metabolism in the latter. The ethanol yield was similar with both strains. The simultaneous metabolism of glucose enhanced xylose metabolism by causing a higher rate of xylose consumption and less xylitol and xylulose excretion, compared with xylose metabolism alone. Simultaneous xylose and glucose metabolism affected the growth rate negatively compared with growth on glucose alone. Additionally, comparison of the specific growth rate of the host strain, a reference strain with a plasmid without XYL1, XYL2 or TAL1, the XYL1 + XYL2 strain and the XYL1 + XYL2 + TAL1 strain on glucose, showed that the presence of plasmids and expression of genes on the plasmids caused a decrease in specific growth rates related to the number of plasmids present and the number of structural genes on the plasmids. Both strains exhibited high XR and XDH activities in batch cultivation, but rapidly lost the activities in chemostat cultivation. Limitations in the xylose-metabolising pathway and further improvement of recombinant xylose-metabolising S. cerevisiae are discussed.
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