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Title: Water-soluble phenolic compounds produced from extractive ammonia pretreatment exerted binary inhibitory effects on yeast fermentation using synthetic hydrolysate

Abstract

Biochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to liquid fuels requires pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of the biomass to produce fermentable sugars. Degradation products produced during thermochemical pretreatment, however, inhibit the microbes with regard to both ethanol yield and cell growth. In this work, we used synthetic hydrolysates (SynH) to study the inhibition of yeast fermentation by water-soluble components (WSC) isolated from lignin streams obtained after extractive ammonia pretreatment (EA). We found that SynH with 20g/L WSC mimics real hydrolysate in cell growth, sugar consumption and ethanol production. However, a long lag phase was observed in the first 48 h of fermentation of SynH, which is not observed during fermentation with the crude extraction mixture. Ethyl acetate extraction was conducted to separate phenolic compounds from other water-soluble components. These phenolic compounds play a key inhibitory role during ethanol fermentation. The most abundant compounds were identified by Liquid Chromatography followed by Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) and Gas Chromatography followed by Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS), including coumaroyl amide, feruloyl amide and coumaroyl glycerol. Chemical genomics profiling was employed to fingerprint the gene deletion response of yeast to different groups of inhibitors in WSC and AFEX-Pretreated Corn Stover Hydrolysate (ACSH). The sensitive/resistant genes cluster patterns for differentmore » fermentation media revealed their similarities and differences with regard to degradation compounds.« less

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Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1426351
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OSTI ID: 1499883
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FC02-07ER64494; startup funds
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Published Article
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PLoS ONE
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Journal Name: PLoS ONE Journal Volume: 13 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1932-6203
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
09 BIOMASS FUELS

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Xue, Saisi, Jones, A. Daniel, Sousa, Leonardo, Piotrowski, Jeff, Jin, Mingjie, Sarks, Cory, Dale, Bruce E., Balan, Venkatesh, and Gupta, ed., Vijai. Water-soluble phenolic compounds produced from extractive ammonia pretreatment exerted binary inhibitory effects on yeast fermentation using synthetic hydrolysate. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0194012.
Xue, Saisi, Jones, A. Daniel, Sousa, Leonardo, Piotrowski, Jeff, Jin, Mingjie, Sarks, Cory, Dale, Bruce E., Balan, Venkatesh, & Gupta, ed., Vijai. Water-soluble phenolic compounds produced from extractive ammonia pretreatment exerted binary inhibitory effects on yeast fermentation using synthetic hydrolysate. United States. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194012
Xue, Saisi, Jones, A. Daniel, Sousa, Leonardo, Piotrowski, Jeff, Jin, Mingjie, Sarks, Cory, Dale, Bruce E., Balan, Venkatesh, and Gupta, ed., Vijai. Thu . "Water-soluble phenolic compounds produced from extractive ammonia pretreatment exerted binary inhibitory effects on yeast fermentation using synthetic hydrolysate". United States. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194012.
@article{osti_1426351,
title = {Water-soluble phenolic compounds produced from extractive ammonia pretreatment exerted binary inhibitory effects on yeast fermentation using synthetic hydrolysate},
author = {Xue, Saisi and Jones, A. Daniel and Sousa, Leonardo and Piotrowski, Jeff and Jin, Mingjie and Sarks, Cory and Dale, Bruce E. and Balan, Venkatesh and Gupta, ed., Vijai},
abstractNote = {Biochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to liquid fuels requires pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of the biomass to produce fermentable sugars. Degradation products produced during thermochemical pretreatment, however, inhibit the microbes with regard to both ethanol yield and cell growth. In this work, we used synthetic hydrolysates (SynH) to study the inhibition of yeast fermentation by water-soluble components (WSC) isolated from lignin streams obtained after extractive ammonia pretreatment (EA). We found that SynH with 20g/L WSC mimics real hydrolysate in cell growth, sugar consumption and ethanol production. However, a long lag phase was observed in the first 48 h of fermentation of SynH, which is not observed during fermentation with the crude extraction mixture. Ethyl acetate extraction was conducted to separate phenolic compounds from other water-soluble components. These phenolic compounds play a key inhibitory role during ethanol fermentation. The most abundant compounds were identified by Liquid Chromatography followed by Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) and Gas Chromatography followed by Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS), including coumaroyl amide, feruloyl amide and coumaroyl glycerol. Chemical genomics profiling was employed to fingerprint the gene deletion response of yeast to different groups of inhibitors in WSC and AFEX-Pretreated Corn Stover Hydrolysate (ACSH). The sensitive/resistant genes cluster patterns for different fermentation media revealed their similarities and differences with regard to degradation compounds.},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0194012},
journal = {PLoS ONE},
number = 3,
volume = 13,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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