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Published on: October 24, 2016
Bioethanol production from Lignocellulosic biomass by a novel Kluyveromyces marxianus strain
Tetsuya Goshima1, Masaharu Tsuji, Hiroyuki Inoue
1Biomass Refinery Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-0046, Japan.
Abstract:
The yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus is considered as a potential alternative to Saccharomyces cerevisiae in producing ethanol as a biofuel. In this study, we investigated the ethanol fermentation properties of novel K. marxianus strain DMB1, isolated from bagasse hydrolysates. This strain utilized sorbitol as well as various pentoses and hexoses as single carbon sources under aerobic conditions and produced ethanol from glucose in hydrolysates of the Japanese cedar at 42 °C. Reference strains K. marxianus NBRC1777 and S. cerevisiae BY4743 did not assimilate sorbitol or ferment lignocellulosic hydrolysates to ethanol at this temperature. Thus strain DMB1 appears to be optimal for producing bioethanol at high temperatures, and might provide a valuable means of increasing the efficiency of ethanol fermentation.
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