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ArticleMicrobial cell factories2021

Stepwise metabolic engineering of Candida tropicalis for efficient xylitol production from xylose mother liquor.

Lihua Zhang, Zhen Chen, Junhua Wang, Wei Shen, Qi Li, Xianzhong Chen

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Article in Microbial cell factories, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lihua ZhangKey Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi, 214122, People's Republic of China.
Zhen ChenKey Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi, 214122, People's Republic of China.
Junhua WangKey Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi, 214122, People's Republic of China.
Wei ShenKey Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi, 214122, People's Republic of China.
Qi LiKey Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi, 214122, People's Republic of China. liqi@jiangnan.edu.cn.
Xianzhong ChenKey Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi, 214122, People's Republic of China. xzchen@jiangnan.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0695-3382
Jiangnan University · CN

Funding

Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province BK20171138Postgraduate Research and Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province KYCX20-1807the 111 Project 111-2-06
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCommercial xylose purification produces xylose mother liquor (XML) as a major byproduct, which has become an inexpensive and abundant carbon source. A portion of this XML has been used to produce low-value-added products such as caramel but the remainder often ends up as an organic pollutant. This has become an issue of industrial concern. In this study, a uracil-deficient Candida tropicalis strain was engineered to efficiently convert XML to the commercially useful product xylitol.

resultsThe xylitol dehydrogenase gene was deleted to block the conversion of xylitol to xylulose. Then, an NADPH regeneration system was added through heterologous expression of the Yarrowia lipolytica genes encoding 6-phosphate-gluconic acid dehydrogenase and 6-phosphate-glucose dehydrogenase. After process optimization, the engineered strain, C. tropicalis XZX-B4ZG, produced 97.10 g L

conclusionsIn conclusion, this study performed a combination of metabolic engineering and process optimizing in C. tropicalis to enhance xylitol production from XML. The use of C. tropicalis XZX-B4ZG, therefore, provided a convenient method to transform the industrial by-product XML into the useful material xylitol.

Indexed as

Metabolic EngineeringCandida tropicalisD-Xylulose ReductaseFermentationGlucose 1-DehydrogenaseGlucosephosphate DehydrogenaseIndustrial MicrobiologyXylitolXyloseD-Xylulose ReductaseGlucose 1-DehydrogenaseGlucosephosphate DehydrogenaseXylitolXyloseCandida tropicalisCofactor regenerationFermentation optimizationXylitolXylose mother liquor

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PMID34034730
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