Abstract:
The present invention relates to a new xylose utilizing Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain being able to utilize xylose for ethanol production which strain is up-regulated with regard to the genes for xylose reductase (XR) and xylulose dehydrogenase (XDH) as well as xululokinase (XK) and over-expressing the non-oxidative pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) and comprising a deletion of the gene GRE3 deletion, as well as the strain has been adapted to xylose feeding.
Abstract:
New xylose-utilizing Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant strain which ferments xylose to ethanol, wherein the strain expresses a K270M mutated P. stipitis XYL1 gene (1 or 2 copies of the mutated gene) together with the native P. stipitis XYL2 gene and overexpresses the endogenous XKS1 gene.