title: Improving ethanol and xylitol fermentation at elevated temperature through substitution of xylose reductase in Kluyveromyces marxianus.
abstract: Thermo-tolerant yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus is able to utilize a wide range of substrates, including xylose; however, the xylose fermentation ability is weak because of the redox imbalance under oxygen-limited conditions. Alleviating the intracellular redox imbalance through engineering the coenzyme specificity of NADPH-preferring xylose reductase (XR) and improving the expression of XR should promote xylose consumption and fermentation. In this study, the native xylose reductase gene (Kmxyl1) of the K. marxianus strain was substituted with XR or its mutant genes from Pichia stipitis (Scheffersomyces stipitis). The ability of the resultant recombinant strains to assimilate xylose to produce xylitol and ethanol at elevated temperature was greatly improved. The strain YZB014 expressing mutant PsXR N272D, which has a higher activity with both NADPH and NADH as the coenzyme, achieved the best results, and produced 3.55 g l(-1) ethanol and 11.32 g l(-1) xylitol-an increase of 12.24- and 2.70-fold in product at 42 °C, respectively. A 3.94-fold increase of xylose consumption was observed compared with the K. marxianus YHJ010 harboring KmXyl1. However, the strain YZB015 expressing a mutant PsXR K21A/N272D, with which co-enzyme preference was completely reversed from NADPH to NADH, failed to ferment due to the low expression. So in order to improve xylose consumption and fermentation in K. marxianus, both higher activity and co-enzyme specificity change are necessary.
authors: School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China.
authors: Biao
authors: B
authors: Zhang
authors: Lulu
authors: L
authors: Li
authors: Jia
authors: J
authors: Zhang
authors: Xiaolian
authors: X
authors: Gao
authors: Dongmei
authors: D
authors: Wang
authors: Jiong
authors: J
authors: Hong
mesh_terms: D000449:Aldehyde Reductase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D003067:Coenzymes / Q000378:metabolism; D050542:D-Xylulose Reductase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D000431:Ethanol / Q000378:metabolism*; D005285:Fermentation; D006358:Hot Temperature; D007716:Kluyveromyces / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D009154:Mutation; D009243:NAD / Q000378:metabolism; D009249:NADP / Q000378:metabolism; D010843:Pichia / Q000235:genetics; D014993:Xylitol / Q000378:metabolism*; D014994:Xylose / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D003067:Coenzymes; D009243:NAD; D000431:Ethanol; D009249:NADP; D014994:Xylose; D000449:Aldehyde Reductase; D050542:D-Xylulose Reductase; D014993:Xylitol
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