The microbiology of malting and brewing

NA Bokulich, CW Bamforth - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Brewing beer involves microbial activity at every stage, from raw material production and
malting to stability in the package. Most of these activities are desirable, as beer is the result …

Microbial production of 2, 3-butanediol for industrial applications

CW Song, JM Park, SC Chung, SY Lee… - Journal of Industrial …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Butanediol (2, 3-BD) has great potential for diverse industries, including chemical,
cosmetics, agriculture, and pharmaceutical areas. However, its industrial production and …

The catabolism of amino acids to long chain and complex alcohols in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

JR Dickinson, LEJ Salgado, MJE Hewlins - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2003 - ASBMB
The catabolism of phenylalanine to 2-phenylethanol and of tryptophan to tryptophol were
studied by 13 C NMR spectroscopy and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry …

The alcohol dehydrogenases of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a comprehensive review

O De Smidt, JC Du Preez, J Albertyn - FEMS yeast research, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) constitute a large family of enzymes responsible for the
reversible oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes with the concomitant reduction of NAD+ or …

Reduction of ethanol yield and improvement of glycerol formation by adaptive evolution of the wine yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae under hyperosmotic conditions

V Tilloy, A Ortiz-Julien, S Dequin - Applied and Environmental …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
There is a strong demand from the wine industry for methodologies to reduce the alcohol
content of wine without compromising wine's sensory characteristics. We assessed the …

Fungicidal drugs induce a common oxidative-damage cellular death pathway

P Belenky, D Camacho, JJ Collins - Cell reports, 2013 - cell.com
Amphotericin, miconazole, and ciclopirox are antifungal agents from three different drug
classes that can effectively kill planktonic yeast, yet their complete fungicidal mechanisms …

Fermentative lifestyle in yeasts belonging to the Saccharomyces complex

A Merico, P Sulo, J Piškur, C Compagno - The FEBS journal, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is characterized by its ability to:(a) degrade glucose or
fructose to ethanol, even in the presence of oxygen (Crabtree effect);(b) grow in the absence …

Whole Genome and Global Gene Expression Analyses of the Model Mushroom Flammulina velutipes Reveal a High Capacity for Lignocellulose Degradation

YJ Park, JH Baek, S Lee, C Kim, H Rhee, H Kim… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Flammulina velutipes is a fungus with health and medicinal benefits that has been used for
consumption and cultivation in East Asia. F. velutipes is also known to degrade …

Characterization of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae YMR318C (ADH6) gene product as a broad specificity NADPH-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase: relevance in …

C Larroy, MR Fernández, E González… - Biochemical …, 2002 - portlandpress.com
YMR318C represents an open reading frame from Saccharomyces cerevisiae with unknown
function. It possesses a conserved sequence motif, the zinc-containing alcohol …

Production technologies for reduced alcoholic wines

LM Schmidtke, JW Blackman… - Journal of Food …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The production and sale of alcohol‐reduced wines, and the lowering of ethanol
concentration in wines with alcohol levels greater than acceptable for a specific wine style …