Production of biodiesel from edible plant oils is quickly expanding worldwide to fill a need for
renewable, environmentally-friendly liquid transportation fuels. Due to concerns over use of …

Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) has an innate ability to withstand high levels of ethanol
that would prove lethal to or severely impair the physiology of other organisms. Significant …

Saccharomyces cerevisiae remains the baker's yeast of choice in the baking industry.
However, its ability to ferment cereal flour sugars and accumulate CO2 as a principal role of …

For recombinant production of squalene, which is a triterpenoid compound with increasing
industrial applications, in microorganisms generally recognized as safe, we screened …

Background Consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) combines enzyme production,
saccharification and fermentation into a one-step process. This strategy represents a …

Amylolytic Saccharomyces cerevisiae derivatives of Ethanol Red™ Version 1 (ER T12) and
M2n (M2n T1) were assessed through enzyme assays, hydrolysis trials, electron microscopy …

Background A recurrent problem in genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) is to correctly
represent lipids as biomass requirements, due to the numerous of possible combinations of …

Despite similarities of cellular membranes in all eukaryotes, every compartment displays
characteristic and often unique features which are important for the functions of the specific …

Squalene is a valuable natural substance with several biotechnological applications. In the
yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, it is produced in the isoprenoid pathway as the first …

This review summarizes the current knowledge on the importance and role of lipids in wine
yeast fermentation. Lipids play an important role in membrane structure, adaptation to stress …