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Acquisition of the ability to assimilate mannitol by Saccharomyces cerevisiae through dysfunction of the general corepressor Tup1-Cyc8.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 2015
Chujo Moeko, Yoshida Shiori, Ota Anri, Murata Kousaku, Kawai Shigeyuki
Abstract excerpt
Saccharomyces cerevisiae normally cannot assimilate mannitol, a promising brown macroalgal carbon source for bioethanol production. The molecular basis of this inability remains unknown. We found that cells capable of assimilating mannitol arose spontaneously from wild-type S. cerevisiae during prolonged culture in mannitol-containing medium. Based on microarray data, complementation analysis, and cell growth...
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