Acquisition of the Ability To Assimilate Mannitol by Saccharomyces cerevisiae through Dysfunction of the General Corepressor Tup1-Cyc8.

• Chujo, Moeko

• Yoshida, Shiori

• Ota, Anri

• Murata, Kousaku

• 河井, 重幸

抄録

Saccharomyces cerevisiae normally cannot assimilate mannitol, a promising brown macroalgal carbon source for bioethanol production. The molecular basis of this inability remains unknown. We found that cells capable of assimilating mannitol arose spontaneously from wild-type S. cerevisiae during prolonged culture in mannitol-containing medium. Based on microarray data, complementation analysis, and cell growth data, we demonstrated that acquisition of mannitol-assimilating ability was due to spontaneous mutations in the genes encoding Tup1 or Cyc8, which constitute a general corepressor complex that regulates many kinds of genes. We also showed that an S. cerevisiae strain carrying a mutant allele of CYC8 exhibited superior salt tolerance relative to other ethanologenic microorganisms; this characteristic would be highly beneficial for the production of bioethanol from marine biomass. Thus, we succeeded in conferring the ability to assimilate mannitol on S. cerevisiae through dysfunction of Tup1-Cyc8, facilitating production of ethanol from mannitol.

収録刊行物

• Applied and environmental microbiology

  Applied and environmental microbiology 81 (1), 9-16, 2015-01-01

  American Society for Microbiology

詳細情報

• CRID: 1050845760732608256
• NII論文ID: 120005530974
• NII書誌ID: AA00543249
• ISSN: 00992240
• HANDLE: 2433/193286
• 本文言語コード: en
• 資料種別: journal article
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