Xylitol production from lignocellulosic whole slurry corn cob by engineered industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae PE-2

• Autor(a) principal: Sara Baptista
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Cunha, Joana T., Romani, Aloia Perez, Domingues, Lucília
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/55390
• topic: Xylitol production; Industrial PE-2; GRE3 aldose reductase; Corn cob hemicellulosic hydrolysate; Presaccharification and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (PSSF); Industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae PE-2; Presaccharification and simultaneous; saccharification and fermentation (PSSF); Science & Technology

In this work, the industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae PE-2 strain, presenting innate capacity for xylitol accumulation, was engineered for xylitol production by overexpression of the endogenous GRE3 gene and expression of different xylose reductases from Pichia stipitis. The best-performing GRE3-overexpressing strain was capable to produce 148.5g/L of xylitol from high xylose-containing media, with a 0.95g/g yield, and maintained close to maximum theoretical yields (0.89g/g) when tested in non-detoxified corn cob hydrolysates. Furthermore, a successful integrated strategy was developed for the production of xylitol from whole slurry corn cob in a presaccharification and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation process (15% solid loading and 36FPU) reaching xylitol yield of 0.93g/g and a productivity of 0.54g/L·h. This novel approach results in an intensified valorization of lignocellulosic biomass for xylitol production in a fully integrated process and represents an advance towards a circular economy.