title: Data for rapid ethanol production at elevated temperatures by engineered thermotolerant Kluyveromyces marxianus via the NADP(H)-preferring xylose reductase-xylitol dehydrogenase pathway.
abstract: A thermo-tolerant NADP(H)-preferring xylose pathway was constructed in Kluyveromyces marxianus for ethanol production with xylose at elevated temperatures (Zhang et al., 2015 [25]). Ethanol production yield and efficiency was enhanced by pathway engineering in the engineered strains. The constructed strain, YZJ088, has the ability to co-ferment glucose and xylose for ethanol and xylitol production, which is a critical step toward enabling economic biofuel production from lignocellulosic biomass. This study contains the fermentation results of strains using the metabolic pathway engineering procedure. The ethanol-producing abilities of various yeast strains under various conditions were compared, and strain YZJ088 showed the highest production and fastest productivity at elevated temperatures. The YZJ088 xylose fermentation results indicate that it fermented well with xylose at either low or high inoculum size. When fermented with an initial cell concentration of OD600=15 at 37 °C, YZJ088 consumed 200 g/L xylose and produced 60.07 g/L ethanol; when the initial cell concentration was OD600=1 at 37 °C, YZJ088 consumed 98.96 g/L xylose and produced 33.55 g/L ethanol with a productivity of 0.47 g/L/h. When fermented with 100 g/L xylose at 42 °C, YZJ088 produced 30.99 g/L ethanol with a productivity of 0.65 g/L/h, which was higher than that produced at 37 °C.
authors.affiliation: School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, PR China ; Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China.
authors.forename: Biao
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, PR China ; Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China.
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, PR China ; Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China.
authors.forename: Dongmei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, PR China ; Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004-5001, USA ; Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China.
authors.forename: Xiaolian
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, PR China ; Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China.
authors.forename: Lianhong
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, PR China ; Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China.
authors.forename: Jiong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hong
keywords: Co-assimilation; Elevated temperature; Ethanol; Kluyveromyces marxianus; Xylose