Yeast biotechnology: teaching the old dog new tricks

Microbial Cell Factories

Commentary

Brigitte Gasser¹  Michael Sauer¹  Diethard Mattanovich¹ 

[1] Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190, Vienna, Austria;Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Vienna, Austria;

关键词: Saccharomyces cerevisiae;    Non-conventional yeasts;    Metabolic engineering;    Biofuels;    Recombinant protein;    Whole cell biocatalysis;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1475-2859-13-34

 received in 2013-12-31, accepted in 2014-02-15,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Yeasts are regarded as the first microorganisms used by humans to process food and alcoholic beverages. The technology developed out of these ancient processes has been the basis for modern industrial biotechnology. Yeast biotechnology has gained great interest again in the last decades. Joining the potentials of genomics, metabolic engineering, systems and synthetic biology enables the production of numerous valuable products of primary and secondary metabolism, technical enzymes and biopharmaceutical proteins. An overview of emerging and established substrates and products of yeast biotechnology is provided and discussed in the light of the recent literature.

【 授权许可】

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© Mattanovich et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014