Yeasts are outstanding hosts for the production of functional recombinant proteins with
industrial or medical applications. Great attention has been emerged on yeast due to the …

Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been used for millennia in the production of food and
beverages and is by far the most studied yeast species. Currently, it is also the most used …

White biotechnology, or industrial biotechnology, is drawing much attention as a solution to
produce energy, chemicals and other materials from renewable resources. White …

The production of recombinant therapeutic proteins is one of the fast-growing areas of
molecular medicine and currently plays an important role in treatment of several diseases …

Highlights•Microbial production of biofuels and commodity chemicals from natural gas and
methanol.•Engineering platform organisms to utilize methanol for producing small …

Considerable progress in our understanding of yeast genomes and their evolution has been
made over the last decade with the sequencing, analysis, and comparisons of numerous …

The heterologous expression of biosynthetic pathways for pharmaceutical or fine chemical
production requires suitable expression hosts and vectors. In eukaryotes, the pathway flux is …

While CRISPR-Cas9-mediated genome editing has transformed yeast research, current
plasmids and cassettes for Cas9 and guide-RNA expression are species specific. CRISPR …

The methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha, known as a non-conventional yeast, is
used for the last 30 years for the production of recombinant proteins, including enzymes …

Pentose sugars are widespread in nature and two of them, D-xylose and L-arabinose
belong to the most abundant sugars being the second and third by abundance sugars in dry …