Xylose reductase from Pichia stipitis with altered coenzyme preference improves ethanolic xylose fermentation by recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
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| Authors: | Oskar Bengtsson Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal Marie F Gorwa-Grauslund |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Applied Microbiology, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | Background Xylose reductase (XR) and xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH) from Pichia stipitis are the two enzymes most commonly used in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains engineered for xylose utilization. The availability of NAD+ for XDH is limited during anaerobic xylose fermentation because of the preference of XR for NADPH. This in turn results in xylitol formation and reduced ethanol yield. The coenzyme preference of P. stipitis XR was changed by site-directed mutagenesis with the aim to engineer it towards NADH-preference. |
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