Expression of Gre2p improves tolerance of engineered xylose-fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae to glycolaldehyde under xylose metabolism

Abstract Background Lignocellulosic biomass upgrading has become a promising alternative route to produce transportation fuels in response to energy security and environmental concerns. As the second most abundant polysaccharide in nature, hemicellulose mainly containing xylose is an important carbon source that can be used for the bioconversion to fuels and chemicals. However, the adaptation phenomena could appear and influence the bioconversion performance of xylose when Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain was transferred from the glucose to the xylose environment. Therefore, it is crucial to elucidate the mechanism of this adaptation phenomena, which can guide the strategy exploration to improve the efficiency of xylose utilization. Results In this study, xylose-utilizing strains had been constructed to effectively consume xylose. It is found that the second incubation of yYST218 strain in synthetic complete-xylose medium resulted in a 1.24-fold increase in xylose consumption ability as compared with the first incubation in synthetic complete-xylose medium. The results clearly showed that growing S. cerevisiae again in synthetic complete-xylose medium can significantly reduce the stagnation time and thus achieved a faster growth rate, by comparing the growth status of the strain in synthetic complete-xylose medium for the first and second time at the single-cell level through Microfluidic technology. Although these xylose-utilizing strains possessed different xylose metabolism pathways, they exhibited the “transient memory” phenomenon of xylose metabolism after changing the culture environment to synthetic complete-xylose medium, which named ‘xylose consumption memory (XCM)’ of S. cerevisiae in this study. According to the identification of protein acetylation, partial least squares analysis and the confirmatory test had verified that H4K5Ac affected the state of “XCM” in S. cerevisiae. Knockout of the acetylase-encoding genes GCN5 and HPA2 enhanced the “XCM” of the strain. Protein acetylation analysis suggested that xylose induced perturbation in S. cerevisiae stimulated the rapid adaptation of strains to xylose environment by regulating the level of acetylation. Conclusions All these results indicated protein acetylation modification is an important aspect that protein acetylation regulated the state of “XCM” in S. cerevisiae and thus determine the environmental adaptation of S. cerevisiae. Systematically exploiting the regulation approach of protein acetylation in S. cerevisiae could provide valuable insights into the adaptation phenomena of microorganisms in complex industrial environments.

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Strain engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for enhanced xylose metabolism

Biotechnology Advances ◽

10.1016/j.biotechadv.2013.03.004 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 31 (6) ◽

pp. 851-861 ◽

Cited By ~ 143

Author(s):

Soo Rin Kim ◽

Yong-Cheol Park ◽

Yong-Su Jin ◽

Jin-Ho Seo

Keyword(s):

Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽

Strain Engineering ◽

Xylose Metabolism

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Simulating Extracellular Glucose Signals Enhances Xylose Metabolism in Recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Microorganisms ◽

10.3390/microorganisms8010100 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 100 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Meiling Wu ◽

Hongxing Li ◽

Shan Wei ◽

Hongyu Wu ◽

Xianwei Wu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽

Metabolic Networks ◽

Glucose Sensing ◽

Biofuel Production ◽

Xylose Utilization ◽

High Concentration ◽

Xylose Metabolism ◽

Camp Phosphodiesterase ◽

Xylose Consumption ◽

Recombinant Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

Efficient utilization of both glucose and xylose from lignocellulosic biomass would be economically beneficial for biofuel production. Recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains with essential genes and metabolic networks for xylose metabolism can ferment xylose; however, the efficiency of xylose fermentation is much lower than that of glucose, the preferred carbon source of yeast. Implications from our previous work suggest that activation of the glucose sensing system may benefit xylose metabolism. Here, we show that deleting cAMP phosphodiesterase genes PDE1 and PDE2 increased PKA activity of strains, and consequently, increased xylose utilization. Compared to the wild type strain, the specific xylose consumption rate (rxylose) of the pde1Δ pde2Δ mutant strains increased by 50%; the specific ethanol-producing rate (rethanol) of the strain increased by 70%. We also show that HXT1 and HXT2 transcription levels slightly increased when xylose was present. We also show that HXT1 and HXT2 transcription levels slightly increased when xylose was present. Deletion of either RGT2 or SNF3 reduced expression of HXT1 in strains cultured in 1 g L−1 xylose, which suggests that xylose can bind both Snf3 and Rgt2 and slightly alter their conformations. Deletion of SNF3 significantly weakened the expression of HXT2 in the yeast cultured in 40 g L−1 xylose, while deletion of RGT2 did not weaken expression of HXT2, suggesting that S. cerevisiae mainly depends on Snf3 to sense a high concentration of xylose (40 g L−1). Finally, we show that deletion of Rgt1, increased rxylose by 24% from that of the control. Our findings indicate how S. cerevisiae may respond to xylose and this study provides novel targets for further engineering of xylose-fermenting strains.

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Harnessing Genetic Diversity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for Fermentation of Xylose in Hydrolysates of Alkaline Hydrogen Peroxide-Pretreated Biomass

Applied and Environmental Microbiology ◽

10.1128/aem.01885-13 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 80 (2) ◽

pp. 540-554 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Trey K. Sato ◽

Tongjun Liu ◽

Lucas S. Parreiras ◽

Daniel L. Williams ◽

Dana J. Wohlbach ◽

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Keyword(s):

Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽

Hydrogen Peroxide ◽

Rapid Evolution ◽

Biofuel Production ◽

Ecological Niches ◽

Alkaline Hydrogen Peroxide ◽

Xylose Metabolism ◽

Content Type ◽

Inhibitory Compounds ◽

Lignocellulosic Biofuel

ABSTRACTThe fermentation of lignocellulose-derived sugars, particularly xylose, into ethanol by the yeastSaccharomyces cerevisiaeis known to be inhibited by compounds produced during feedstock pretreatment. We devised a strategy that combined chemical profiling of pretreated feedstocks, high-throughput phenotyping of genetically diverseS. cerevisiaestrains isolated from a range of ecological niches, and directed engineering and evolution against identified inhibitors to produce strains with improved fermentation properties. We identified and quantified for the first time the major inhibitory compounds in alkaline hydrogen peroxide (AHP)-pretreated lignocellulosic hydrolysates, including Na+, acetate, andp-coumaric (pCA) and ferulic (FA) acids. By phenotyping these yeast strains for their abilities to grow in the presence of these AHP inhibitors, one heterozygous diploid strain tolerant to all four inhibitors was selected, engineered for xylose metabolism, and then allowed to evolve on xylose with increasing amounts ofpCA and FA. After only 149 generations, one evolved isolate, GLBRCY87, exhibited faster xylose uptake rates in both laboratory media and AHP switchgrass hydrolysate than its ancestral GLBRCY73 strain and completely converted 115 g/liter of total sugars in undetoxified AHP hydrolysate into more than 40 g/liter ethanol. Strikingly, genome sequencing revealed that during the evolution from GLBRCY73, the GLBRCY87 strain acquired the conversion of heterozygous to homozygous alleles in chromosome VII and amplification of chromosome XIV. Our approach highlights that simultaneous selection on xylose andpCA or FA with a wildS. cerevisiaestrain containing inherent tolerance to AHP pretreatment inhibitors has potential for rapid evolution of robust properties in lignocellulosic biofuel production.

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