Recombinant acid-resistant yeast having improved lactic-acid-producing ability
AssigneeSK Innovation Co., Ltd.
InventorsJae Yeon Park, Tae Young Lee, Ki Sung Lee
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Abstract
Disclosed are a recombinant acid-resistant yeast having improved lactic-acid-producing ability and a method of preparing lactic acid using the same. When producing lactic acid using the recombinant acid-resistant yeast according to the present invention, not only lactic-acid fermentation can be performed with lactic-acid-producing ability similar to that of bacterial fermentation using a remarkably smaller amount of a neutralizing agent than in the case of conventional bacterial fermentation, but also the production of ethanol and glycerol which are byproducts can be reduced. Thus, fermentation costs can be greatly reduced and the cost of subsequent purification processes can be reduced.
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A recombinant strain having lactic-acid-producing ability, wherein the recombinant strain is constructed by deleting a gene encoding a pyruvate decarboxylase from the acid-resistant yeast YBC strain deposited under accession number KCTC13508BP and introducing in said acid-resistant yeast YBC strain deposited under accession number KCTC13508BP a gene encoding a lactate dehydrogenase derived from Staphylococcus epidermidis and comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1 at the position of the gene encoding the pyruvate decarboxylase.
A recombinant strain having lactic-acid-producing ability, wherein the recombinant strain is constructed by (a) deleting (i) a GPD1 gene, which is a gene encoding an enzyme that converts dihydroxyacetone phosphate to glycerol-3-phosphate, (ii) a CYB2 gene, which is a gene encoding an enzyme that converts lactate into pyruvate, (iii) an ADH gene, which is a gene encoding an alcohol dehydrogenase, and (iv) a PDC gene, which is a gene encoding a pyruvate decarboxylase, from the acid-resistant yeast YBC strain deposited under accession number KCTC13508BP, and (b) introducing in said acid-resistant YBC strain deposited under accession number KCTC13508BP, a gene encoding a lactate dehydrogenase, wherein the gene encoding the lactate dehydrogenase is introduced at the positions of the deleted ADH gene, PDC gene and GPD1 gene, and wherein the gene encoding the lactate dehydrogenase is derived from Staphylococcus epidermidis and comprises the sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1.
A recombinant strain #26-5 deposited under accession number KCTC14215BP, wherein said recombinant strain #26-5 deposited under accession number KCTC14215BP is constructed by adaptive evolution at a high lactic-acid concentration of a recombinant strain having lactic-acid-producing ability constructed by (a) deleting (i) a GPD1 gene, which is a gene encoding an enzyme that converts dihydroxyacetone phosphate to glycerol-3-phosphate, (ii) a CYB2 gene, which is a gene encoding an enzyme that converts lactate into pyruvate, (iii) an ADH gene, which is a gene encoding an alcohol dehydrogenase, and (iv) a PDC gene, which is a gene encoding a pyruvate decarboxylase, from the acid-resistant yeast YBC strain deposited under KCTC13508BP, and (b) introducing a gene encoding a lactate dehydrogenase comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1 into the acid-resistant yeast YBC strain deposited under KCTC13508BP.
A recombinant yeast YBC6 strain constructed by introducing a gene encoding a lactate dehydrogenase derived from Staphylococcus epidermidis and comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1 at a position of a PDC gene of the recombinant strain #26-5 deposited under accession number KCTC14215BP, the recombinant yeast YBC6 strain having improved lactic-acid-producing ability at a high lactic-acid concentration and suppressed ethanol- and glycerol-producing ability compared to the YBC strain deposited under accession number KCTC13508BP.
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