BACKGROUND Non-conventional yeasts present a huge, yet barely exploited, resource of yeast biodiversity for industrial applications. This presents a great opportunity to explore alternative ethanol-fermenting yeasts that are more adapted to some of the stress factors present in the harsh environmental conditions in second-generation (2G) bioethanol fermentation. Extremely tolerant yeast species...

The present work is initiated to investigate whether a defined culture comprising a mixture of three yeast species, Kluyveromyces marxianus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Pichia stipitis can ferment a mixture of sugars to produce bioethanol at rates higher than those achieved by pure cultures of the same. For this purpose, we develop models of single species based on the hybrid cybernetic model...

to accomplish the worldwide demand for recombinant human erythropoietin (rhuepo) as a therapeutic, application of cost-efficient expression system of methylotrophic yeast pichia pastoris (p. pastoris) rather than mammalian cells is indispensable. herein, a report on high levels secreted-expression of pichia-derived rhuepo by batch fermentation in a ph stabilized format is presented. the full le...

phytic acid is the dominant form of phosphorous in plant seeds. however, phytic acid cannot beutilized by animals and causes them serious phosphate deficiency. utilization of phytase as ananimal feed additive can affect liberation of phosphor and its mineral availability. in this study,heterologous expression of the a. niger phya gene was investigated in the methylotrophic yeastsp. pastoris and...

A bifunctional inhibitor from Penicillium sp VM24 causing inactivation of xyloglucanase from Thermomonospora sp and an aspartic protease from Aspergillus saitoi was identified. Steady state kinetics studies of xyloglucanase and the inhibitor revealed an irreversible, non-competitive, two-step inhibition mechanism with IC(50) and K(i) values of 780 and 500nM respectively. The interaction of o-ph...

An unspecific peroxygenase from Aspergillus brasiliensis highly expressed in Pichia pastoris catalyses aromatic hydroxylation of a number benzylic compounds.