Construction of Lactose-Assimilating and High-Ethanol-Producing Yeasts by Protoplast Fusion
AUTOR(ES)
Farahnak, F.
RESUMO
The availability of a yeast strain which is capable of fermenting lactose and at the same time is tolerant to high concentrations of ethanol would be useful for the production of ethanol from lactose. Kluyveromyces fragilis is capable of fermenting lactose, but it is not as tolerant as Saccharomyces cerevisiae to high concentrations of ethanol. In this study, we have used the protoplast fusion technique to construct hybrids between auxotrophic strains of S. cerevisiae having high ethanol tolerance and an auxotrophic strain of lactose-fermenting K. fragilis isolated by ethyl methanesulfonate mutagenesis. The fusants obtained were prototrophic and capable of assimilating lactose and producing ethanol in excess of 13% (vol/vol). The complementation frequency of fusion was about 0.7%. Formation of fusants was confirmed by the increased amount of chromosomal DNA per cell. Fusants contained 8 × 10−8 to 16 × 10−8 μg of DNA per cell as compared with about 4 × 10−8 μg of DNA per cell for the parental strains, suggesting that multiple fusions had taken place.
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