Yeast cells are often employed in industrial fermentation processes for their ability to
efficiently convert relatively high concentrations of sugars into ethanol and carbon dioxide …

In the last 40 years, several scientific and technological advances in microbiology of the
fermentation have greatly contributed to evolution of the ethanol industry in Brazil. These …

Metabolic efficiency profoundly influences organismal fitness. Nonphotosynthetic organisms,
from yeast to mammals, derive usable energy primarily through glycolysis and respiration …

The recent start-up of several full-scale 'second generation'ethanol plants marks a major
milestone in the development of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for fermentation of …

We investigated genomic diversity of a yeast species that is both an opportunistic pathogen
and an important industrial yeast. Under the name Candida krusei, it is responsible for about …

Natural products account for more than 50% of all small-molecule pharmaceutical agents
currently in clinical use. However, low availability often becomes problematic when a …

Coupling the tools of synthetic biology with traditional molecular genetic techniques can
enable the rapid prototyping and optimization of yeast strains. While the era of yeast …

The main focus in development of yeast cell factories has generally been on establishing
optimal activity of heterologous pathways and further metabolic engineering of the host …

Non-conventional yeasts are playing important roles as cell factories for bioproduction of
biofuels, food additives and proteins with outstanding natural characteristics. However, the …

The conventional yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is the most studied yeast and has been
used in many important industrial productions, especially in bioethanol production from first …