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Soy sauce yeast Zygosaccharomyces rouxii plays a central role in the production of flavor compounds in soy sauce, while the flor-forming strain spoils its quality by producing 2-methylpropanoic acid, 2-methylbutanoic acid, and 3-methylbutanoic acid, which have an unpleasant odor. To investigate the relationship between flor formation and unpleasant odor, we measured the volatile compounds that accumulated under various growth conditions. As a result, marked amounts of 2-methylpropanoic acid, 2-methylbutanoic acid, or 3-methylbutanoic acid accumulated in synthetic medium containing valine, isoleucine, or leucine, respectively, under aerobic growth conditions. These results implied that the unpleasant compounds were produced from their corresponding branched chain amino acid (BCAA) when the cell was placed under aerobic condition through flor formation. The first step in BCAA catabolism and the last step in BCAA anabolism are both catalyzed by a BCAA transaminase. A mutant lacking the BCAA transaminase gene, BAT1, resulted in valine and isoleucine auxotrophy, while a mutant lacking both BAT1 and the α-aminoadipate aminotransferase gene, ARO8, resulted in valine, isoleucine, and leucine auxotrophy. Although the bat1∆ aro8∆ double mutant formed flor similarly to the wild-type strain, the mutant exhibited less unpleasant odor generation. These results suggest that the interconversion between 4-methyl-2-oxopentanoate and leucine is catalyzed by both Bat1p and Aro8p in Z. rouxii. Taken together, these results indicate that flor formation is not seemed to be directly linked to unpleasant odor generation. These findings encourage us to breed flor-forming yeasts without an unpleasant odor.
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Watanabe, J., Uehara, K. & Mogi, Y. Both BAT1 and ARO8 are responsible for unpleasant odor generation in halo-tolerant yeast Zygosaccharomyces rouxii . Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 99, 7685–7697 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-015-6673-3
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