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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 2000, p. 3381-3386, Vol. 66, No. 8
0099-2240/00/$04.00+0
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Anaerobic Xylose Fermentation by Recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae Carrying XYL1, XYL2, and XKS1 in Mineral Medium Chemostat Cultures

Anna Eliasson, Camilla Christensson,dagger C. Fredrik Wahlbom, and Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal*

Department of Applied Microbiology, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden

Received 10 December 1999/Accepted 2 June 2000

For ethanol production from lignocellulose, the fermentation of xylose is an economic necessity. Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been metabolically engineered with a xylose-utilizing pathway. However, the high ethanol yield and productivity seen with glucose have not yet been achieved. To quantitatively analyze metabolic fluxes in recombinant S. cerevisiae during metabolism of xylose-glucose mixtures, we constructed a stable xylose-utilizing recombinant strain, TMB 3001. The XYL1 and XYL2 genes from Pichia stipitis, encoding xylose reductase (XR) and xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH), respectively, and the endogenous XKS1 gene, encoding xylulokinase (XK), under control of the PGK1 promoter were integrated into the chromosomal HIS3 locus of S. cerevisiae CEN.PK 113-7A. The strain expressed XR, XDH, and XK activities of 0.4 to 0.5, 2.7 to 3.4, and 1.5 to 1.7 U/mg, respectively, and was stable for more than 40 generations in continuous fermentations. Anaerobic ethanol formation from xylose by recombinant S. cerevisiae was demonstrated for the first time. However, the strain grew on xylose only in the presence of oxygen. Ethanol yields of 0.45 to 0.50 mmol of C/mmol of C (0.35 to 0.38 g/g) and productivities of 9.7 to 13.2 mmol of C h-1 g (dry weight) of cells-1 (0.24 to 0.30 g h-1 g [dry weight] of cells-1) were obtained from xylose-glucose mixtures in anaerobic chemostat cultures, with a dilution rate of 0.06 h-1. The anaerobic ethanol yield on xylose was estimated at 0.27 mol of C/(mol of C of xylose) (0.21 g/g), assuming a constant ethanol yield on glucose. The xylose uptake rate increased with increasing xylose concentration in the feed, from 3.3 mmol of C h-1 g (dry weight) of cells-1 when the xylose-to-glucose ratio in the feed was 1:3 to 6.8 mmol of C h-1 g (dry weight) of cells-1 when the feed ratio was 3:1. With a feed content of 15 g of xylose/liter and 5 g of glucose/liter, the xylose flux was 2.2 times lower than the glucose flux, indicating that transport limits the xylose flux.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Applied Microbiology, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden. Phone: 46 46 222 8428. Fax: 46 46 222 4203. E-mail: Barbel.Hahn-Hagerdal{at}tmb.lth.se.

dagger Present address: Institute of Molecular BioSciences, Massey University, 11 222 Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 2000, p. 3381-3386, Vol. 66, No. 8
0099-2240/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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