Isolation and characterization of a resident tolerant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain from a spent sulfite liquor fermentation plant
Journal article, 2012

Spent Sulfite Liquor (SSL) from wood pulping facilities is a sugar rich effluent that can be used as feedstock for ethanol production. However, depending on the pulping process conditions, the release of monosaccharides also generates a range of compounds that negatively affect microbial fermentation. In the present study, we investigated whether endogenous yeasts in SSL-based ethanol plant could represent a source of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains with a naturally acquired tolerance towards this inhibitory environment. Two isolation processes were performed, before and after the re-inoculation of the plant with a commercial baker’s yeast strain. The isolates were clustered by DNA fingerprinting and a recurrent Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain, different from the inoculated commercial baker’s yeast strain, was isolated. The strain, named TMB3720, flocculated heavily and presented high furaldehyde reductase activity. During fermentation of undiluted SSL, TMB3720 displayed a 4-fold higher ethanol production rate and 1.8-fold higher ethanol yield as compared to the commercial baker’s yeast. Another non-Saccharomyces cerevisiae species, identified as the pentose utilizing Pichia galeiformis, was also recovered in the last tanks of the process where the hexose to pentose sugar ratio and the inhibitory pressure are expected to be the lowest.

Stress tolerance

PCR-fingerprinting

Spent sulfite liquor fermentation

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Resident yeast

Author

Violeta Sánchez I Nogué

Maurizio Bettiga

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Industrial biotechnology

Marie-Francoise Gorwa-Grauslund

AMB Express

21910855 (eISSN)

Vol. 2 1 68- 68

Subject Categories

Industrial Biotechnology

Bioprocess Technology

Bioenergy

Areas of Advance

Energy

Life Science Engineering (2010-2018)

DOI

10.1186/2191-0855-2-68

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