Development of a serial bioreactor system for direct ethanol production from starch using<Emphasis Type="Italic">Aspergillus niger</Emphasis> and<Emphasis Type="Italic">Saccharomyces cerevisiae</Emphasis>

Aspergillus niger hyphae were found to grow with unliquefied potato starch under aerobic conditions, but did not grow under anaerobic conditions. The raw culture ofA. niger catalyzed saccharification of potato starch to glucose, producing approximately 12 g glucose/L/day/ The extracellular enzyme activity was decreased in proportion to incubation time, and approximately 64% of initial activity was maintained after 3 days. At 50°C,A. niger hyphae growth stopped, while the extracellular enzyme activity peaked. On the basis of theA. niger growth property and enzyme activity, we designed a serial bioreactor system composed of four different reactors. Fungal hyphae were cultivated in reactor I at 30°C, uniquefied starch was saccharified to glycose by a fungal hyphae culture in reactors II and III at 50°C, and glucose was fermented to ethanol bySaccharomyces cerevisiae in reactor IV. The total glucose produced by fungal hyphae in reactor I and saccharification in reactor II was about 42 g/L/day. Ethanol production in reactor IV was approximately 22 g/L/day, which corresponds to about 79% of the theoretical maximum produced from 55 g starch/L/day.     

Alcohol fermentation of starch by a genetic recombinant yeast having glucoamylase activity

Alcohol fermentation of starch was investigated using a direct starch fermenting yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae SR93, constructed by integrating a glucoamylase-producing gene (STA1) into the chromosome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae SH1089. The glucoamylase was constitutively produced by the recombinant yeast. The ethanol concentration produced by the recombinant yeast was 14.3 g/L which was about 1.5-fold higher than by the conventional mixed culture using an amylolytic microorganism and a fermenting microorganism. About 60% of the starch was converted into ethanol by the recombinant yeast, and the ethanol yield reached its maximum value of 0.48 at the initial starch concentration of 50 g/L. The fed-batch culture, which maintains the starch concentration in the range of 30 to 50 g/L, was used to produce a large amount of ethanol from starch. The amount of ethanol produced in the fed-batch culture increased about 20% compared to the batch culture. (c) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Construction of a flocculent Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain secreting high levels of Aspergillus niger β-galactosidase

A flocculent Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain secreting Aspergillus niger beta-galactosidase activity was constructed by transforming S. cerevisiae NCYC869-A3 strain with plasmid pVK1.1 harboring the A. niger beta-galactosidase gene, lacA, under the control of the ADH1 promoter and terminator. Compared to other recombinant S. cerevisiae strains, this recombinant yeast has higher levels of extracellular beta-galactosidase activity. In shake-flask cultures, the beta-galactosidase activity detected in the supernatant was 20 times higher than that obtained with previously constructed strains (Domingues et al. 2000a). In bioreactor culture, with cheese-whey permeate as substrate, a yield of 878.0 nkat/gsubstrate was obtained. The recombinant strain is an attractive alternative to other fungal beta-galactosidase production systems as the enzyme is produced in a rather pure form. Moreover, the use of flocculating yeast cells allows for enzyme production with high productivity in continuous fermentation systems with facilitated downstream processing.     

High-level ethanol production from starch by a flocculent <Emphasis Type="Italic">Saccharomyces cerevisiae </Emphasis>strain displaying cell-surface glucoamylase

A Strain of host yeast YF207, which is a tryptophan auxotroph and shows strong flocculation ability, was obtained from SaccharomYces diastaticus ATCC60712 and S. cerevisiae W303-1B by tetrad analysis. The plasmid pGA11, which is a multicopy plasmid for cell-surface expression of the Rhyzopus oryzae glucoamylase/alpha-agglutinin fusion protein, was then introduced into this flocculent yeast strain (YF207/pGA11). Yeast YF207/pGA11 grew rapidly under aerobic condition (dissolved oxygen 2.0 ppm), using soluble starch. The harvested cells were used for batch fermentation of soluble starch to ethanol under anaerobic condition and showed high ethanol production rates (0.71 g h(-1) l(-1)) without a time lag, because glucoamylase was immobilized on the yeast cell surface. During repeated utilization of cells for fermentation, YF207/pGA11 maintained high ethanol production rates over 300 h. Moreover, in fed-batch fermentation with YF207/pGA11 for approximately 120 h, the ethanol concentration reached up to 50 g l(-1). In conclusion, flocculent yeast cells displaying cell-surface glucoamylase are considered to be very effective for the direct fermentation of soluble starch to ethanol.     

黑曲霉糖化酶在酿酒酵母中的表达和分泌

从黑曲霉糖化酶高产株T2l合成的糖化酶cDNA,经5’端和3’端改造后克隆到酵母质粒YFDl8上,转化酿酒酵母。转化子的淀粉培养基平板检测,培养滤液蛋白电泳和糖化酶活力分析都表明,含有糖化酶基因表达质粒的酵母转化子能有效地分泌有功能的糖化酶到细胞外。实验证明酵母a园子启动子和分泌信号序列能促使黑曲霉糖化酶cDNA在酵母中表达和分泌．实验还表明．黑曲霉糖化酶原的翻译后加工序列很可能亦能被酵母识别,加工生成有功能的成熟的糖化酶。以上成功为构建有实用意义的淀粉水解酵母工程菌迈出了重要的一步。     

Direct production of ethanol from raw corn starch via fermentation by use of a novel surface-engineered yeast strain codisplaying glucoamylase and alpha-amylase

Direct and efficient production of ethanol by fermentation from raw corn starch was achieved by using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae codisplaying Rhizopus oryzae glucoamylase and Streptococcus bovis alpha-amylase by using the C-terminal-half region of alpha-agglutinin and the flocculation functional domain of Flo1p as the respective anchor proteins. In 72-h fermentation, this strain produced 61.8 g of ethanol/liter, with 86.5% of theoretical yield from raw corn starch.     

Effect of C/N ratio and starch concentration on ethanol production from sago starch using recombinant yeast

Recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae YKU 131 (capable of expressing glucoamylase) was used to produce ethanol from sago starch. The optimum C/N ratio for ethanol production by the recombinant yeast was 7.9, where 4.7 and 10.1 g/l ethanol was produced from 20 and 40 g/l sago starch, respectively. At sago starch concentration higher than 40 g/l and C/N ratio higher than 10.4, glucoamylase production and rate of starch hydrolysis were reduced, which in turn, reduced ethanol production significantly. The theoretical yield of ethanol based on sago starch consumed in fermentation using 40 g/l was 72.6%. This yield was slightly lower than those obtained in fermentation using soluble starch such as potato and corn starch, which ranged from 80–90% as reported in the literature. However, S. cerevisiae YKU 131 could only utilize 62% of the total amount of starch added to a medium.     

Action of glucoamylase from Aspergillus niger on phosphorylated substrate

Glucoamylase (1,4-alpha-D-glucan glucohydrolase, EC 3.2.1.3) from Aspergillus niger was purified to be free from alpha-amylase and phosphatase (glucose 6-phosphate as substrate). The phosphatase was well separated from the glucoamylase by phosphocellulose ion-exchange chromatography. The glucoamylase action was prevented by the esterified phosphate groups of the substrate. Thus, the extensive action of the glucoamylase on potato starch exposed the 6-posphorylglucosyl residue of the starch at the non-reducing terminal and large molecular weight limit dextrins remained. The concomitant action of the phosphatase was necessary for the complete degradation of the starch.     

Ethanol production from starch by a coimmobilized mixed culture system of Aspergillus awamori and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The development of a coimmobilized mixed culture sys tem of aerobic and facultative anaerobic microorganisms in Ca-alginate gel beads and the production of useful metabolites by the system were investigated. A coimmobilized mixed culture system of Aspergillus awamori (obligate aerobe) and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (facultative anaerobe) in Ca-alginate gel beads was used as a model system, and ethanol production from starch by the system was used as a model production. Mold Asp. awamori is an amylolytic microorganism while yeast S. cerevisiae is an ethanol producer. The two microorganisms grew competitively in the oxygen-rich surface area of the gel beads because they had similar oxygen demands in aerobic culture conditions. Neither microorganism exhibited "habitat segregation" in the gel beads and leaked yeast cells grew aerobically without ethanol production in the broth. Ethanol productivity was low under these conditions.A more desirable coimmobilized mixed culture system of Asp. awamori and S. cerevisiae was established by adding Vantocil IB (a biocidal compound) to the production medium. The antimicrobial activity of Vantocil IB was more effective with S. cerevisiae than with Asp. awamori, so that a dense mycelial layer of Asp. awamori formed in the surface of the gel beads While S. cerevisiae grew densely in the more inner areas of the gel beads. Also, yeast cell leakace was repressed and ethanol productivity was improved. The system with Vantocil IB produced ethanol of 4.5 and 12.3 g/L from 16 and 40 g/L starch, respectively. A continuous culture using this system with Vantocil IB was also carried out, and a stable steady state could be maintained for six days without leakage of yeast cells and contamination. The selection of a factor suitable for producing "habitat segregation" enabled the development of a coimmobilized mixed culture system of an aerobe and a facultative anaerobe. In this study, total habitat segregation was used to denote a tendency to exhibit denser growth in different parts of one gel bead.     

Improving the amylolytic activity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae glucoamylase by the addition of a starch binding domain

Glucoamylase produced by amylolytic strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (var. diastaticus) lacks a starch binding domain that is present in homologous glucoamylases from Aspergillus niger and other filamentous fungi. The absence of the binding domain makes the enzyme inefficient against raw starch and hence unsuitable for most biotechnological applications. We have constructed a hybrid glucoamylase-encoding gene by in-frame fusion of the S. cerevisiae STA1 gene and DNA fragment that encodes the starch binding domain of A. niger glucoamylase. The hybrid enzyme resulting from expression of the chimeric gene in S. cerevisiae has substrate binding capability and hydrolyses insoluble starch, properties not present in the original yeast enzyme.     

Efficient and direct fermentation of starch to ethanol by sake yeast strains displaying fungal glucoamylases

Aspergillus oryzae glucoamylases encoded by glaA and glaB, and Rhizopus oryzae glucoamylase, were displayed on the cell surface of sake yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae GRI-117-UK and laboratory yeast S. cerevisiae MT8-1. Among constructed transformants, GRI-117-UK/pUDGAA, displaying glaA glucoamylase, produced the most ethanol from liquefied starch, although MT8-1/pUDGAR, displaying R. oryzae glucoamylase, had the highest glucoamylase activity on its cell surface.     

Direct fermentation of potato starch to ethanol by cocultures of Aspergillus niger and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Direct fermentation of unhydrolyzed potato starch to ethanol by monocultures of an amylolytic fungus, Aspergillus niger, and cocultures of A. niger and Saccharomyces cerevisiae was investigated. Amylolytic activity, rate and amount of starch utilization, and ethanol yields increased several-fold in coculture versus the monoculture due to the synergistic metabolic interactions between the species. Optimal ethanol yields were obtained in the pH range 5 to 6 and amylolytic activity was obtained in the pH range 5 to 8. Ethanol yields were maximal when fermentations were conducted anaerobically. Increasing S. cerevisiae inoculum in the coculture from 4 to 12% gave a dramatic increase in the rate of ethanol production, and ethanol yields of greater than 96% of the theoretical maximum were obtained within 2 days of fermentation. These results indicate that simultaneous fermentation of starch to ethanol can be conducted efficiently by using cocultures of the amylolytic fungus A. niger and a nonamylolytic sugar fermenter, S. cerevisiae.     

Direct fermentation of potato starch to ethanol by cocultures of Aspergillus niger and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Direct fermentation of unhydrolyzed potato starch to ethanol by monocultures of an amylolytic fungus, Aspergillus niger, and cocultures of A. niger and Saccharomyces cerevisiae was investigated. Amylolytic activity, rate and amount of starch utilization, and ethanol yields increased several-fold in coculture versus the monoculture due to the synergistic metabolic interactions between the species. Optimal ethanol yields were obtained in the pH range 5 to 6 and amylolytic activity was obtained in the pH range 5 to 8. Ethanol yields were maximal when fermentations were conducted anaerobically. Increasing S. cerevisiae inoculum in the coculture from 4 to 12% gave a dramatic increase in the rate of ethanol production, and ethanol yields of greater than 96% of the theoretical maximum were obtained within 2 days of fermentation. These results indicate that simultaneous fermentation of starch to ethanol can be conducted efficiently by using cocultures of the amylolytic fungus A. niger and a nonamylolytic sugar fermenter, S. cerevisiae.     

Isoglucose production from raw starchy materials based on a two-stage enzymatic system

A new low-cost glucoamylase preparation for liquefaction and saccharification of starchy raw materials in a one-stage system was developed and characterized. A non-purified biocatalyst with a glucoamylase activity of 3.11 U/mg, an alpha-amylase activity of 0.12 WU/mg and a protein content of 0.04 mg protein/mg was obtained from a shaken-flask culture of the strain Aspergillus niger C-IV-4. Factors influencing the enzymatic hydrolysis of starchy materials such as reaction time, temperature and enzyme and substrate concentration were standardized to maximize the yield of glucose syrup. Thus, a 90% conversion of 5% starch, a 67.5% conversion of 5% potato flour and a 55% conversion of 5% wheat flour to sweet syrups containing up to 87% glucose was reached in 3 h using 1.24 glucoamylase U/mg hydrolyzed substrate. The application of such glucoamylase preparation and a commercially immobilized glucose isomerase for the production of glucose-fructose syrup in a two-stage system resulted in high production of stable glucose/fructose blends with a fructose content of 50%. A high concentration of fructose in obtained sweet syrups was achieved when isomerization was performed both in a batch and repeated batch process.     

In-depth analysis of the Aspergillus niger glucoamylase (glaA) promoter performance using high-throughput screening and controlled bioreactor cultivation techniques

An in-depth characterization of the Aspergillus niger glucoamylase (glaA) promoter performance was carried out on defined medium employing multi-well high-throughput screening as well as controlled batch and fed-batch bioreactor culture techniques with GFP as a fluorescent reporter protein. A variety of metabolizable carbon substrates and non-metabolizable analogs were screened with regard to their effect on the glaA expression system. The results clearly demonstrate that only starch and its hydrolytic products, including glucose, act as inducers. However, induction of the glaA expression system through the monosaccharide glucose is significantly lower compared to starch and the higher molecular weight starch degradation products. All other 26 carbon substrates tested do not induce, or even, as in the case of the easily metabolizable monosaccharide xylose, repress glaA-promoter controlled gene expression in the presence of the inducing disaccharide maltose with an increase of repression strength by increasing xylose concentrations. The complex effect of glucose on glaA-promoter controlled expression was also analyzed using non-metabolizable glucose analogs, namely 5-thio-glucose and 2-deoxyglucose, which were identified as novel and potent inducers of the glaA expression system. The results show that the induction strength depends on the inducer concentration with a maximum at defined concentrations and lower induction or even repression at concentrations above. Moreover, controlled fed-batch cultivations using a high maltose feed rate with concomitant extracellular accumulation of glucose resulted in lower levels of the reporter protein compared to cultures with a low-maltose feed rate without extracellular glucose accumulation, thus supporting the conclusion that increasing the glucose concentration beyond a critical point reduces the induction strength or may even cause repression. This way, the speed of polymer hydrolysis, glucose uptake and intracellular breakdown can be fine-tuned for optimal fungal growth and the metabolic burden for glucoamylase synthesis can be limited adequately in response to nutrient availability.     

Codon-optimized glucoamylase sGAI of Aspergillus awamori improves starch utilization in an industrial yeast

The development of a yeast that converts raw starch to ethanol in one step (called consolidated bioprocessing) could yield large cost reductions in the bioethanol industry. The aim of this study was to develop an efficient amylolytic Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain suitable for industrial bioethanol production. A native and codon-optimized variant of the Aspergillus awamori glucoamylase gene were expressed in the S. cerevisiae Y294 laboratory strain. Codon optimization resulted to be effective and the synthetic sequence sGAI was then δ-integrated into a S. cerevisiae strain with promising industrial fermentative traits. The mitotically stable recombinant strains showed high enzymatic capabilities both on soluble and raw starch (2425 and 1140 nkat/g dry cell weight, respectively). On raw corn starch, the engineered yeasts exhibited improved fermentative performance with an ethanol yield of 0.42 (g/g), corresponding to 75?% of the theoretical maximum yield.     

Mathematical model for aerobic culture of a recombinant yeast

A mathematical model was formulated to simulate cell growth, plasmid loss and recombinant protein production during the aerobic culture of a recombinant yeast S. cerevisiae. Model development was based on three simplified metabolic events in the yeast: glucose fermentation, glucose oxidation and ethanol oxidation. Cell growth was expressed as a composite of these metabolic events. Their contributions to the total specific growth rate depended on the activities of the pacemaker enzyme pools of the individual pathways. The pacemaker enzyme pools were regulated by the specific glucose uptake rate. The effect of substrate concentrations on the specific growth rate was described by a modified Monod equation. It was assumed that recombinant protein formation is only associated with oxidative pathways. Plasmid loss kinetics was formulated based on segregational instability during cell division by assuming constant probability of plasmid loss. Experiments on batch fermentation of recombinant S. cerevisiae C468/pGAC9 (ATCC 20690), which expresses Aspergillus awamori glucoamylase gene and secretes glucoamylase into the extracellular medium, were carried out in an airlift bioreactor in order to evaluate the proposed model. The model successfully predicted the dynamics of cell growth, glucose consumption, ethanol metabolism, glucoamylase production and plasmid instability. Excellent agreement between model simulations and our experimental data was achieved. Using published experimental data, model agreement was also found for other recombinant yeast strains. In general, the proposed model appears to be useful for the design, scale-up, control and optimization of recombinant yeast bioprocesses.     

Kinetics and thermodynamics of ethanol production by a thermotolerant mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in a microprocessor-controlled bioreactor

AIMS: The present investigation deals with the development of thermotolerant mutant strain of yeast for studying enhanced productivity of ethanol from molasses in a fully controlled bioreactor. METHODS AND RESULTS: The parental culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae ATCC 26602 was mutated using UV treatment. A single thermotolerant mutant was isolated after extensive screening and optimization, and grown on molasses medium in liquid cultures. The mutant was 1.45-fold improved than its wild parent with respect to ethanol productivity (7.2 g l-1 h-1), product yield (0.44 g ethanol g-1 substrate utilized) and specific ethanol yield (19.0 g ethanol g-1 cells). The improved ethanol productivity was directly correlated with titres of intracellular and extracellular invertase activities. The mutant supported higher volumetric and product yield of ethanol, significantly (P相似文献   

Repeated fermentation from raw starch using Saccharomyces cerevisiae displaying both glucoamylase and α-amylase

A diploid yeast strain displaying both α-amylase and glucoamylase was developed for repeated fermentation from raw starch. First, the construct of α-amylase was optimized for cell surface display, as there have been no reports of α-amylase-displaying yeast. The modified yeast displaying both glucoamylase and α-amylase produced 46.5 g/l of ethanol from 200 g/l of raw corn starch after 120 h of fermentation, and this was 1.5-fold higher when compared to native α-amylase-displaying yeast. Using the glucoamylase and modified α-amylase co-displaying diploid strain, we repeated fermentation from 100g/l of raw starch for 23 cycles without the loss of α-amylase or glucoamylase activity. The average ethanol productivity and yield during repeated fermentation were 1.61 g/l/h and 76.6% of the theoretical yield, respectively. This novel yeast may be useful for reducing the cost of bio-ethanol production and may be suitable for industrial-scale bio-ethanol production.