Abstract
Saccharomyces cerevisiae was engineered for assembly of minicellulosomes by heterologous expression of a recombinant scaffolding protein from Clostridium cellulovorans and a chimeric endoglucanase E from Clostridium thermocellum. The chimeric endoglucanase E fused with the dockerin domain of endoglucanase B from C. cellulovorans was assembled with the recombinant scaffolding protein. The resulting strain was able to ferment amorphous cellulose [carboxymethyl- cellulose (CMC)] into ethanol with the aid of β-glucosidase 1 produced from Saccharomycopsis fibuligera. The minicellulosomes assembled in vivo retained the synergistic effect for cellulose hydrolysis. The minicellulosomes containing the cellulose-binding domain were purified by crystalline cellulose affinity in a single step. In the fermentation test at 10 g L-1 initial CMC, approximately 3.45 g L-1 ethanol was produced after 16 h. The yield (in grams of ethanol produced per substrate) was 0.34 g g-1 from CMC. This result indicates that a one-step processing of cellulosic biomass in a consolidated bioprocessing configuration is technically feasible by recombinant yeast cells expressing functional minicellulosomes.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 39-47 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | FEMS microbiology letters |
Volume | 310 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2010 Sep |
Keywords
- Clostridium cellulovorans
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- cellulose-binding domain
- consolidated bioprocessing
- ethanol fermentation
- minicellulosome
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Microbiology
- Molecular Biology
- Genetics