Engineering alcohol tolerance in yeast

Engineering alcohol tolerance in yeast

Ethanol toxicity in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae limits titer and productivity in the industrial production of transportation bioethanol. We show that strengthening the opposing potassium and proton electrochemical membrane gradients is a mechanism that enhances general resistance to multiple...

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Main Authors: Lam, Felix H. (Contributor), Ghaderi, Adel (Contributor), Stephanopoulos, Gregory (Contributor), Fink, Gerald R (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor), Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Contributor), Fink, Gerald R. (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2015-10-29T14:18:02Z.
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