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Agricultural residues, such as grain by-products, are rich in the hydrolyzable carbohydrate polymers hemicellulose and cellulose; hence, they represent a readily available source of the fermentable sugars xylose and glucose. The biomass-to-ethanol technology is now a step closer to commercialization because a stable recombinant yeast strain has been developed that can efficiently ferment glucose and xylose simultaneously (coferment) to ethanol. This strain, LNH-ST, is a derivative ofSaccharomyces yeast strain 1400 that carries the xylose-catabolism encoding genes ofPichia stipitis in its chromosome. Continuous pure sugar cofermentation studies with this organism resulted in promising steady-state ethanol yields (70.4% of theoretical based on available sugars) at a residence time of 48 h. Further studies with corn biomass pretreated at the pilot scale confirmed the performance characteristics of the organism in a simultaneous saccharification and cofermentation (SSCF) process: LNH-ST converted 78.4% of the available glucose and 56.1% of the available xylose within 4 d, despite the presence of high levels of metabolic inhibitors. These SSCF data were reproducible at the bench scale and verified in a 9000-L pilot scale bioreactor.
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Toon, S.T., Philippidis, G.P., Ho, N.W.Y. et al. Enhanced cofermentation of glucose and xylose by recombinantSaccharomyces yeast strains in batch and continuous operating modes. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 63, 243–255 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02920428
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