Aerobic physiology of redox-engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains modified in the ammonium assimilation for increased NADPH availability.

Autor: Moreira dos Santos M; Center for Process Biotechnology, BioCentrum-DTU, Building 223, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark., Thygesen G, Kötter P, Olsson L, Nielsen J
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: FEMS yeast research [FEMS Yeast Res] 2003 Oct; Vol. 4 (1), pp. 59-68.
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-1356(03)00155-7
Abstrakt: Recombinant strains altered in the ammonium assimilation pathways were constructed with the purpose of increasing NADPH availability. The NADPH-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase encoded by GDH1, which accounts for a major fraction of the NADPH consumption during growth on ammonium, was deleted, and alternative pathways for ammonium assimilation were overexpressed: GDH2 (NADH-consuming) or GLN1 and GLT1 (the GS-GOGAT system). The flux through the pentose phosphate pathway during aerobic growth on glucose decreased to about half that of the reference strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae CEN.PK113-7D, indicating a major redox alteration in the strains. The basic growth characteristics of the recombinant strains were not affected to a great extent, but the dilution rate at which the onset of aerobic fermentation occurred decreased, suggesting a relation between the onset of the Crabtree effect and the flux through the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway downstream of glucose 6-phosphate. No redox effect was observed in a strain containing a deletion of GLR1, encoding glutathione reductase, an enzyme that is NADPH-consuming.
Databáze: MEDLINE