title: Efficient bioethanol production by a recombinant flocculent Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain with a genome-integrated NADP+-dependent xylitol dehydrogenase gene.
abstract: The recombinant industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain MA-R5 was engineered to express NADP(+)-dependent xylitol dehydrogenase using the flocculent yeast strain IR-2, which has high xylulose-fermenting ability, and both xylose consumption and ethanol production remarkably increased. Furthermore, the MA-R5 strain produced the highest ethanol yield (0.48 g/g) from nonsulfuric acid hydrolysate of wood chips.
authors.affiliation: Biomass Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Kure, Hiroshima, Japan. a-matsushika@aist.go.jp
authors.forename: Akinori
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matsushika
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Seiya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kodaki
authors.forename: Keisuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Makino
authors.forename: Shigeki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sawayama