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Title: Evolved hexose transporter enhances xylose uptake and glucose/xylose co-utilization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Abstract

Enhancing xylose utilization has been a major focus in Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain-engineering efforts. The incentive for these studies arises from the need to use all sugars in the typical carbon mixtures that comprise standard renewable plant-biomass-based carbon sources. While major advances have been made in developing utilization pathways, the efficient import of five carbon sugars into the cell remains an important bottleneck in this endeavor. Here we use an engineered S. cerevisiae BY4742 strain, containing an established heterologous xylose utilization pathway, and imposed a laboratory evolution regime with xylose as the sole carbon source. We obtained several evolved strains with improved growth phenotypes and evaluated the best candidate using genome resequencing. We observed remarkably few single nucleotide polymorphisms in the evolved strain, among which we confirmed a single amino acid change in the hexose transporter HXT7 coding sequence to be responsible for the evolved phenotype. The mutant HXT7(F79S) shows improved xylose uptake rates (Vmax = 186.4 ± 20.1 nmol·min -1 ·mg -1 ) that allows the S. cerevisiae strain to show significant growth with xylose as the sole carbon source, as well as partial co-utilization of glucose and xylose in a mixed sugar cultivation.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [1]
  1. Joint BioEnergy Inst. (JBEI), Emeryville, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Joint BioEnergy Inst. (JBEI), Emeryville, CA (United States)
  3. Joint BioEnergy Inst. (JBEI), Emeryville, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1256065
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1379040
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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Reider Apel, Amanda, Ouellet, Mario, Szmidt-Middleton, Heather, Keasling, Jay D., and Mukhopadhyay, Aindrila. Evolved hexose transporter enhances xylose uptake and glucose/xylose co-utilization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1038/srep19512.
Reider Apel, Amanda, Ouellet, Mario, Szmidt-Middleton, Heather, Keasling, Jay D., & Mukhopadhyay, Aindrila. Evolved hexose transporter enhances xylose uptake and glucose/xylose co-utilization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep19512
Reider Apel, Amanda, Ouellet, Mario, Szmidt-Middleton, Heather, Keasling, Jay D., and Mukhopadhyay, Aindrila. Tue . "Evolved hexose transporter enhances xylose uptake and glucose/xylose co-utilization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep19512. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1256065.
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title = {Evolved hexose transporter enhances xylose uptake and glucose/xylose co-utilization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae},
author = {Reider Apel, Amanda and Ouellet, Mario and Szmidt-Middleton, Heather and Keasling, Jay D. and Mukhopadhyay, Aindrila},
abstractNote = {Enhancing xylose utilization has been a major focus in Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain-engineering efforts. The incentive for these studies arises from the need to use all sugars in the typical carbon mixtures that comprise standard renewable plant-biomass-based carbon sources. While major advances have been made in developing utilization pathways, the efficient import of five carbon sugars into the cell remains an important bottleneck in this endeavor. Here we use an engineered S. cerevisiae BY4742 strain, containing an established heterologous xylose utilization pathway, and imposed a laboratory evolution regime with xylose as the sole carbon source. We obtained several evolved strains with improved growth phenotypes and evaluated the best candidate using genome resequencing. We observed remarkably few single nucleotide polymorphisms in the evolved strain, among which we confirmed a single amino acid change in the hexose transporter HXT7 coding sequence to be responsible for the evolved phenotype. The mutant HXT7(F79S) shows improved xylose uptake rates (Vmax = 186.4 ± 20.1 nmol·min -1 ·mg -1 ) that allows the S. cerevisiae strain to show significant growth with xylose as the sole carbon source, as well as partial co-utilization of glucose and xylose in a mixed sugar cultivation.},
doi = {10.1038/srep19512},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
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volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Tue Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2016}
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  • Nora, Luísa Czamanski; Wehrs, Maren; Kim, Joonhoon
  • Microbial Cell Factories, Vol. 18, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12934-019-1167-0

Engineering of Pentose Transport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for Biotechnological Applications
journal, January 2020

  • Nijland, Jeroen G.; Driessen, Arnold J. M.
  • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Vol. 7
  • DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00464

Production of fuels and chemicals from xylose by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a review and perspective
journal, May 2017