Metabolic Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A Key Cell Factory Platform for Future Biorefineries
Review article, 2012

Metabolic engineering is the enabling science of development of efficient cell factories for the production of fuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food ingredients through microbial fermentations. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a key cell factory already used for the production of a wide range of industrial products, and here we review ongoing work, particularly in industry, on using this organism for the production of butanol, which can be used as biofuel, and isoprenoids, which can find a wide range of applications including as pharmaceuticals and as biodiesel. We also look into how engineering of yeast can lead to improved uptake of sugars that are present in biomass hydrolyzates, and hereby allow for utilization of biomass as feedstock in the production of fuels and chemicals employing S. cerevisiae. Finally, we discuss the perspectives of how technologies from systems biology and synthetic biology can be used to advance metabolic engineering of yeast.

Industrial biotechnology

Isoprenoids

Biobutanol

Metabolic engineering

Yeast Substrate range

Author

Kuk-ki Hong

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Life Sciences

Jens B Nielsen

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Life Sciences

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

1420-682X (ISSN) 1420-9071 (eISSN)

Vol. 69 16 2671-2690

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Industrial Biotechnology

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Biocatalysis and Enzyme Technology

Other Industrial Biotechnology

Areas of Advance

Energy

Life Science Engineering (2010-2018)

DOI

10.1007/s00018-012-0945-1

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