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http://dx.doi.org/10.4014/jmb.2105.05018

Observation of Cellodextrin Accumulation Resulted from Non-Conventional Secretion of Intracellular β-Glucosidase by Engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae Fermenting Cellobiose  

Lee, Won-Heong (Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Jin, Yong-Su (Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology / v.31, no.7, 2021 , pp. 1035-1043 More about this Journal
Abstract
Although engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermenting cellobiose is useful for the production of biofuels from cellulosic biomass, cellodextrin accumulation is one of the main problems reducing ethanol yield and productivity in cellobiose fermentation with S. cerevisiae expressing cellodextrin transporter (CDT) and intracellular β-glucosidase (GH1-1). In this study, we investigated the reason for the cellodextrin accumulation and how to alleviate its formation during cellobiose fermentation using engineered S. cerevisiae fermenting cellobiose. From the series of cellobiose fermentation using S. cerevisiae expressing only GH1-1 under several culture conditions, it was discovered that small amounts of GH1-1 were secreted and cellodextrin was generated through trans-glycosylation activity of the secreted GH1-1. As GH1-1 does not have a secretion signal peptide, non-conventional protein secretion might facilitate the secretion of GH1-1. In cellobiose fermentations with S. cerevisiae expressing only GH1-1, knockout of TLG2 gene involved in non-conventional protein secretion pathway significantly delayed cellodextrin formation by reducing the secretion of GH1-1 by more than 50%. However, in cellobiose fermentations with S. cerevisiae expressing both GH1-1 and CDT-1, TLG2 knockout did not show a significant effect on cellodextrin formation, although secretion of GH1-1 was reduced by more than 40%. These results suggest that the development of new intracellular β-glucosidase, not influenced by non-conventional protein secretion, is required for better cellobiose fermentation performances of engineered S. cerevisiae fermenting cellobiose.
Keywords
Cellulosic ethanol; engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae; intracellular ${\beta}$-glucosidase; trans-glycosylation; non-conventional protein secretion;
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