树干毕赤酵母和酿酒酵母混合糖发酵产乙醇

以树干毕赤酵母和酿酒酵母为发酵菌株,酸性蒸汽爆破玉米秸秆预水解液和纯糖模拟液为C源,采用固定化酵母细胞的方法,研究了酸爆玉米秸秆预水解液初始pH、N源种类及其浓度、3种发酵模式对树干毕赤酵母戊糖发酵的影响。结果表明:玉米秸秆预水解液适合发酵的初始pH范围为6.0～7.0;1.0 g/L的(NH4)2SO4作为N源,在40 g/L葡萄糖和25 g/L木糖培养基中发酵24 h,糖利用率达到99.47%,乙醇质量浓度为24.72 g/L,优于尿素和蛋白胨作为N源;3种模式的发酵体系中,以游离树干毕赤酵母和固定化酿酒酵母发酵性能最好,糖利用率和乙醇得率分别为99.43%和96.39%。     

高浓度糖发酵制备乙醇

以树干毕赤酵母为发酵菌株,混合糖（木糖、葡萄糖）为发酵底物,通过培养基和培养条件的改变来确定树干毕赤酵母高糖浓度发酵时所需的条件。研究结果表明：在24h发酵周期内初始木糖质量浓度为63．0g／L较适宜;在36h发酵周期内初始木糖质量浓度为72．0g/L较适宜。24h发酵周期内,在36．0g／L木糖中添加的葡萄糖质量浓度以54．0g/L为最佳,发酵结束乙醇质量浓度达32．9g／L;36h发酵周期内,添加的葡萄糖质量浓度以72．0g／L为最佳,发酵结束乙醇质量浓度为36．9g／L。以（NH4）2SO4为N源时较适合戊糖发酵制备乙醇,（NH2）2SO4的最佳质量浓度为1．1g／L。发酵前8h摇床转速为90r／min,后16h为150r／min,乙醇质量浓度较高,可达17．5g/L。     

休哈塔假丝酵母乙醇发酵性能的研究

木糖的高效发酵是制约纤维素燃料乙醇生产的技术瓶颈之一,高性能发酵菌种的开发是本领域研究的重点。以木糖发酵的典型菌株休哈塔假丝酵母为材料,研究氮源配比、葡萄糖和木糖初始浓度、葡萄糖添加及典型抑制物等因素对其木糖利用和乙醇发酵性能的影响规律。结果表明,硫酸铵更适宜于木糖和葡萄糖发酵产乙醇。在摇瓶振荡发酵条件下,该酵母可发酵164.0 g/L葡萄糖生成61.9 g/L乙醇,糖利用率和乙醇得率分别为99.8%和74.0%;受酵母细胞膜上转运体系的限制,对木糖的最高发酵浓度为120.0 g/L,可生成45.7 g/L乙醇,糖利用率和乙醇得率分别达到94.8%和87.0%。休哈塔假丝酵母发酵木糖的主要产物为乙醇,仅生成微量的木糖醇;添加葡萄糖可促进木糖的利用;休哈塔假丝酵母在葡萄糖发酵时的乙酸和甲酸的耐受浓度分别为8.32和2.55 g/L,木糖发酵时的乙酸和甲酸的耐受浓度分别为6.28和1.15 g/L。     

一株中型假丝酵母发酵木糖产乙醇的特性研究

本研究对自然界中筛选得到的1株可以发酵木糖产乙醇的中型假丝酵母(Candida intermedia)的特性进行了研究.该菌株在28℃、120 r/min、72 h条件下,发酵3%木糖的乙醇产率最高,达到理论值的43.70%,发酵7%木糖得到的乙醇产量最高,为6.480 g/L.发酵时间延长到156 h,可以利用8%木糖产乙醇21.225 g/L,产率为理论值的72.87%.该菌株还可以在同样条件下,发酵13%葡萄糖得到乙醇50.965 g/L,达到理论值的76.90%.以3% 2% 3%分批补加糖,比一次性发酵8%木糖的乙醇产量提高9.91%.在葡萄糖和木糖的混合培养基中,优先利用葡萄糖,同时还表现出葡萄糖对木糖发酵的促进作用,当2%的木糖与6%葡萄糖混合时,乙醇产量比两者单独发酵的加和提高了25%.     

利用木糖-葡萄糖为原料产乙醇酵母的筛选、鉴定及发酵试验

建立筛选利用木糖为碳源产乙醇酵母模型,获得一株适合利用木质纤维素为原料产乙醇的酵母菌株。样品经麦芽汁培养基培养后,以木糖为唯一碳源的筛选培养基初筛,再以重铬酸钾显色法复筛。通过生理生化和26D1/D2区对筛选得到的菌株进行分析和鉴定,该菌初步鉴定为Pichia caribbica。经过筛选得到的菌株Y2-3以木糖（40g/L）为唯一碳源发酵时：生物量为23.5g/L,木糖利用率为94.7 %,乙醇终产量为4.57 g/L;以混合糖（葡萄糖40 g/L,木糖20 g/L）发酵时：生物量为28.6 g/L,木糖利用率为94.2 %,葡萄糖利用率为95.6%,乙醇终产量为20.6 g/L。Pichia caribbica是可以转化木糖及木糖-葡萄糖混合糖为乙醇的酵母菌株,为利用木质纤维素发酵乙醇的进一步研究奠定了基础。     

一种基因工程改造的NADH高亲和力木糖还原酶突变基因可促进酿酒酵母发酵木糖生成乙醇

在导入表达毕赤酵母(Pichia stipitis)木糖还原酶(xylose reductase,XR)和木糖醇脱氢酶(xylitol dehydrogenase,XDH)基因的重组酿酒酵母中,木糖还原酶活性主要依赖辅酶NADPH,木糖醇脱氢酶活性依赖辅酶 NAD+,两者的辅助因子不同导致细胞内电子氧化还原的不平衡,是造成木糖醇积累,影响木糖代谢和乙醇产量的主要原因之一.将经过基因工程改造获得的NADH高亲和力的木糖还原酶突变基因m1,与毕赤酵母木糖醇脱氢酶(PsXDH)基因xyl2共转染酿酒酵母AH109,以转染毕赤酵母木糖还原酶(PsXR)基因xyl1和xyl2重组质粒的酵母细胞为对照菌株,在SC/-Leu/-Trp营养缺陷型培养基中进行筛选,获得的阳性转化子分别命名为AH-M-XDH和AH-XR-XDH.重组酵母在限制氧通气条件下对木糖和葡萄糖进行共发酵摇瓶培养,HPLC检测发酵底物的消耗和代谢产物的产出情况.结果显示,与对照菌株AH-XR-XDH相比,AH-M-XDH的木糖利用率明显提高,乙醇得率增加了16%,木糖醇产生下降了41.4%.结果证实,通过基因工程改造的木糖代谢关键酶,可用于酿酒酵母发酵木糖生产乙醇,其能通过改善酿酒酵母细胞内氧化还原失衡的问题,提高木糖利用率和乙醇产率.     

斯达氏油脂酵母利用混合糖发酵产油脂

研究了斯达氏油脂酵母Lipomyces starkeyi2#利用葡萄糖-木糖混合糖为碳源生长和油脂积累特性。L.star-keyi2#利用70 g/L葡萄糖和70 g/L木糖作为碳源在30℃下摇瓶发酵96 h,糖利用率均达90%以上,菌体生物量分别为14.1 g/L和13.1 g/L,油脂质量分数分别为55.7%和52.6%。相同条件下该菌株利用混合糖(葡萄糖46 g/L,木糖24 g/L)为碳源时总糖利用率、生物量和油脂质量分数分别为75.1%,15.0 g/L和40.0%。借助于P lackett-Burm an设计法和单因子实验法对培养条件进行了优化,结果表明发酵96 h混合糖利用率可达到97.3%,发酵120 h后混合糖利用率、生物量和菌体油脂质量分数分别达99.5%、19.0 g/L和52.6%。生物量得率和油脂得率分别达到27%和14%。     

分批补料对木糖发酵生产乙醇的影响

以树干毕赤酵母为发酵菌种,纯木糖为发酵底物,通过分批补料来提高糖利用率以及乙醇得率。结果表明,在24h内,最佳初始木糖浓度为80g/L,在28h的发酵周期中,可以将木糖浓度提高至90g/L,在32h发酵周期内可以将木糖浓度提高至100g/L。通过分批补料,乙醇浓度得到明显提高。当总糖浓度分别为80g/L、90g/L时,24h发酵周期内,分批补料次数以1次为宜,乙醇浓度分别达30.95g/L、32.60g/L,相比于不补料即一次性投料,乙醇浓度分别提高了9.36%、9.18%。总糖浓度100g/L,28h发酵周期内,补料2次效果最佳,乙醇浓度达37.49g/L,比一次性投料下提高了10.36%,较一次性投料达到相同发酵效果缩短了4h。     

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1　树干毕赤酵母用麦秸水解产物生产乙醇在发酵木糖的酵母中 ,树干毕赤酵母 (Ｐｉｃｈｉａｓｔｉｐｉｔｉｓ)的优点是发酵木糖快 ,乙醇产率高 ,几乎不产生木糖醇。此外 ,毕赤酵母还可以发酵各种糖类包括纤维二糖。毕赤酵母在木糖发酵中并不一定需要维生素 ,可以利用农业废料生产乙醇。麦秸粉 (粒度 0 .7～ 1.0ｍｍ )用稀酸水解过滤后 ,用碱中和或加过量的Ｃａ(ＯＨ) 2 。麦秸水解产物的成分 (ｇ/Ｌ) :木糖 12 .8± 0 .2 5 ;葡萄糖 1.7± 0 .3;阿拉伯糖 2 .6± 0 .2 1;乙酸 2 .7± 0 .33。本研究用毕赤酵母ＮＲＲＬＹ 712 4和毕赤酵母的适应…     

酚酮类对树干毕赤酵母乙醇发酵及脂肪酸组成的影响

木质素降解产物对微生物产生的抑制作用,是燃料乙醇生物炼制的主要瓶颈之一。本文以树干毕赤酵母为发酵菌株,研究木质素降解产物中3种酚酮类(4-羟基苯乙酮、4-羟基-3-甲氧基苯乙酮、4-羟基-3,5-二甲氧基苯乙酮)对其木糖乙醇发酵及酵母细胞脂肪酸组成的影响。采用高效液相色谱(HPLC)和气相色谱-质谱联用(GC/MS)技术对乙醇发酵性能和酵母细胞脂肪酸组成进行分析。研究结果表明,酚酮类物质对乙醇发酵呈现抑制作用且其分子量越低抑制作用越明显,当4-羟基苯乙酮浓度为1.50 g/L时,发酵24 h的木糖利用率、乙醇得率和乙醇浓度分别下降了42.47%、5.30%和9.76 g/L;培养基中存在酚酮类物质时,酵母细胞中的不饱和脂肪酸的比例上升,添加1.50 g/L的3种酚酮类物质后,树干毕赤酵母细胞不饱和脂肪酸和饱和脂肪酸的比例从原来的2.58分别上升到3.03、3.06和3.61,酵母细胞膜的流动性随之上升,不稳定性提高。因此,酚酮类物质能够降低酵母生长、提高不饱和脂肪酸的比例以及降低乙醇发酵能力,有效降低或去除木质素降解产物含量是提高木质纤维原料生物炼制的关键。     

发酵木糖生产乙醇的野生菌和转基因菌的研究进展

木糖发酵是利用植物纤维原料生物转化制取乙醇工业化生产的技术基础和关键。野生酵母中有些种属菌株可以高效利用木糖产生乙醇,其中毕赤酵母（Pichiastipim）的乙醇转化速度最高达到0．99g／L／h,转化率几乎接近理论值0．5g／g,发酵液中最高乙醇浓度可迭到（61±9）g／L。但工业生产中要达到毕赤酵母所要求的微氧最佳发酵条件比较困难。近十几年来许多研究尝试根据代谢工程原理,利用基因工程技术对酿酒酵母进行改造。从而提高其发酵木糖产生乙醇的能力。这些研究大多是将毕赤酵母的一些木糖发酵关键酶基因（XYL1、XYL2、XYL3以及ADHl、ADH2等）转入酿酒酵母细胞内,并试图得到正常转录和表达。但到目前为止,大部分的重组菌株的乙醇发酵性能还没有达到工业生产的要求。     

Efficient production of L-lactic acid from xylose by Pichia stipitis

Microbial conversion of renewable raw materials to useful products is an important objective in industrial biotechnology. Pichia stipitis, a yeast that naturally ferments xylose, was genetically engineered for l-(+)-lactate production. We constructed a P. stipitis strain that expressed the l-lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) from Lactobacillus helveticus under the control of the P. stipitis fermentative ADH1 promoter. Xylose, glucose, or a mixture of the two sugars was used as the carbon source for lactate production. The constructed P. stipitis strain produced a higher level of lactate and a higher yield on xylose than on glucose. Lactate accumulated as the main product in xylose-containing medium, with 58 g/liter lactate produced from 100 g/liter xylose. Relatively efficient lactate production also occurred on glucose medium, with 41 g/liter lactate produced from 94 g/liter glucose. In the presence of both sugars, xylose and glucose were consumed simultaneously and converted predominantly to lactate. Lactate was produced at the expense of ethanol, whose production decreased to approximately 15 to 30% of the wild-type level on xylose-containing medium and to 70 to 80% of the wild-type level on glucose-containing medium. Thus, LDH competed efficiently with the ethanol pathway for pyruvate, even though the pathway from pyruvate to ethanol was intact. Our results show, for the first time, that lactate production from xylose by a yeast species is feasible and efficient. This is encouraging for further development of yeast-based bioprocesses to produce lactate from lignocellulosic raw material.     

Efficient bioconversion of rice straw to ethanol with TiO2/UV pretreatment

Rice straw is a lignocellulosic biomass that constitutes a renewable organic substance and alternative source of energy; however, its structure confounds the liberation of monosaccharides. Pretreating rice straw using a TiO(2)/UV system facilitated its hydrolysis with Accellerase 1000(?), suggesting that hydroxyl radicals (OH·) from the TiO(2)/UV system could degrade lignin and carbohydrates. TiO(2)/UV pretreatment was an essential step for conversion of hemicellulose to xylose; optimal conditions for this conversion were a TiO(2) concentration of 0.1% (w/v) and an irradiation time of 2 h with a UV-C lamp at 254 nm. After enzymatic hydrolysis, the sugar yields from rice straw pretreated with these parameters were 59.8 ± 0.7% of the theoretical for glucose (339 ± 13 mg/g rice straw) and 50.3 ± 2.8% for xylose (64 ± 3 mg/g rice straw). The fermentation of enzymatic hydrolysates containing 10.5 g glucose/L and 3.2 g xylose/L with Pichia stipitis produced 3.9 g ethanol/L with a corresponding yield of 0.39 g/g rice straw. The maximum possible ethanol conversion rate is 76.47%. TiO(2)/UV pretreatment can be performed at room temperature and atmospheric pressure and demonstrates potential in large-scale production of fermentable sugars.     

Ethanol production from eucalyptus wood hemicellulose hydrolysate by Pichia stipitis

Ethanol production was evaluated from eucalyptus wood hemicellulose acid hydrolysate using Pichia stipitis NRRL Y-7124. An initial lag phase characterized by flocculation and viability loss of the yeast inoculated was observed. Subsequently, cell regrowth occurred with sequential consumption of sugars and production of ethanol. Polyol formation was detected. Acetic acid present in the hydrolysate was an important inhibitor of the fermentation, reducing the rate and the yield. Its toxic effect was due essentially to its undissociated form. The fermentation was more effective at an oxygen transfer rate between 1.2 and 2.4 mmol/L h and an initial pH of 6.5. The hydrolysate used in the experiences had the following composition (expressed in grams per liter): xylose 30, arabinose 2.8, glucose 1.5, galactose 3.7, mannose 1.0, cellobiose 0.5, acetic acid 10, glucuronic acid 1.5, and galacturonic acid 1.0. The best values obtained were maximum ethanol concentration 12.6 g/L, fermentation time 75 h, fermentable sugar consumption 99% ethanol yield 0.35 g/g sugars consumed, and volumetric ethanol productivity 4 g/L day. (c) 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Repression of xylose-specific enzymes by ethanol in Scheffersomyces (Pichia) stipitis and utility of repitching xylose-grown populations to eliminate diauxic lag

During the fermentation of lignocellulosic hydrolyzates to ethanol by native pentose-fermenting yeasts such as Scheffersomyces (Pichia) stipitis NRRL Y-7124 (CBS 5773) and Pachysolen tannophilus NRRL Y-2460, the switch from glucose to xylose uptake results in a diauxic lag unless process strategies to prevent this are applied. When yeast were grown on glucose and resuspended in mixed sugars, the length of this lag was observed to be a function of the glucose concentration consumed (and consequently, the ethanol concentration accumulated) prior to the switch from glucose to xylose fermentation. At glucose concentrations of 95 g/L, the switch to xylose utilization was severely stalled such that efficient xylose fermentation could not occur. Further investigation focused on the impact of ethanol on cellular xylose transport and the induction and maintenance of xylose reductase and xylitol dehydrogenase activities when large cell populations of S. stipitis NRRL Y-7124 were pre-grown on glucose or xylose and then presented mixtures of glucose and xylose for fermentation. Ethanol concentrations around 50 g/L fully repressed enzyme induction although xylose transport into the cells was observed to be occurring. Increasing degrees of repression were documented between 15 and 45 g/L ethanol. Repitched cell populations grown on xylose resulted in faster fermentation rates, particularly on xylose but also on glucose, and eliminated diauxic lag and stalling during mixed sugar conversion by P. tannophilus or S. stipitis, despite ethanol accumulations in the 60 or 70 g/L range, respectively. The process strategy of priming cells on xylose was key to the successful utilization of high mixed sugar concentrations because specific enzymes for xylose utilization could be induced before ethanol concentration accumulated to an inhibitory level.     

Application of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia stipitis karyoductants to the production of ethanol from xylose

Karyoductants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae V30 and Pichia stipitis CCY 39501 with the ability to ferment D-xylose to ethanol were isolated. The ability of these isolates to assimilate different sugars, ethanol tolerance and ethanol production from D-xylose was investigated. Karyoductants didn't grow on starch, lactose and cellobiose, like S. cerevisiae, but showed good growth on xylose and L-arabinose, like P. stipitis. All isolates fermented xylose to ethanol slower than P. stipitis and with lower yields, 0.09 - 0.16 g/g. They secreted also about 3.4 - 7.1 g/dm3 of xylitol to the culture medium (P. stipitis only 0.06 g/dm3). The karyoductants showed an average tolerance to ethanol when compared with the parent strains and fermented glucose in the presence of 6% alcohol whereas parent strain S. cerevisiae and P. stipitis showed exogenic ethanol tolerance of 9% and 3%, respectively.     

The expression of a Pichia stipitis xylose reductase mutant with higher K(M) for NADPH increases ethanol production from xylose in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Xylose fermentation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae requires the introduction of a xylose pathway, either similar to that found in the natural xylose-utilizing yeasts Pichia stipitis and Candida shehatae or similar to the bacterial pathway. The use of NAD(P)H-dependent XR and NAD(+)-dependent XDH from P. stipitis creates a cofactor imbalance resulting in xylitol formation. The effect of replacing the native P. stipitis XR with a mutated XR with increased K(M) for NADPH was investigated for xylose fermentation to ethanol by recombinant S. cerevisiae strains. Enhanced ethanol yields accompanied by decreased xylitol yields were obtained in strains carrying the mutated XR. Flux analysis showed that strains harboring the mutated XR utilized a larger fraction of NADH for xylose reduction. The overproduction of the mutated XR resulted in an ethanol yield of 0.40 g per gram of sugar and a xylose consumption rate of 0.16 g per gram of biomass per hour in chemostat culture (0.06/h) with 10 g/L glucose and 10 g/L xylose as carbon source.