Rational engineering of industrial S. cerevisiae: towards xylitol production from sugarcane bagasse
Fellipe da Silveira Bezerra de Mello, Carla Maneira, Frank Uriel Suárez Lizarazo, Sheila T. Nagamatsu, Beatriz de Oliveira Vargas, Carla Ferreira dos Santos Vieira, Thais Oliveira Secches, Alessando L. V. Coradini, Maria Augusta de Carvalho Silvello, Rosana Goldbeck, Gonçalo Amarante Guimarães Pereira, Gleidson Silva Teixeira
The paper reports CRISPR-Cas9 editing of industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for xylitol production from sugarcane bagasse hydrolysate, showing improved performance over a lab strain.
bioRxiv · Dec 8, 2021 · PreprintMolecular Biology