Los biocombustibles. los biocombustibles. los biocombustibles. La ingeniería de tolerancia al alcohol en levaduras.

Felix H Lam1, Adel Ghaderi2, Gerald R Fink3

  • 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 4, 2014
PubMed
Resumen

El fortalecimiento de los gradientes de la membrana de la levadura mejora la tolerancia al etanol y la producción de bioetanol. Esto implica aumentar el potasio extracelular y el pH, mejorando la viabilidad de la levadura y la fermentación en condiciones industriales.

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