1. Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the one-step production of a functional sweetening mixture towards food applications
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Amorim, Cláudia, Rodrigues, Joana Lúcia Lima Correia, Braga, Adelaide, Gomes, Daniela Filipa Correia, Costa, João Manuel Rainha, Silvério, Sara Isabel Cruz, Cardoso, Beatriz, Fernández-Lobato, María, Rodrigues, L. R., and Universidade do Minho
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Prebiotics ,Science & Technology ,Recombinant β-fructofuranosidase ,Fructooligosaccharides ,Recombinant ß-fructofuranosidase ,Saccharomyces cerevisiae ,Bioprocess ,Co-culture - Abstract
Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) are recognized prebiotics with proven beneficial effects, usually produced by two-step processes. In this work, an in vivo bioprocess was developed for the one-step production of a functional sweetening mixture containing FOS. Sucrose was directly fermented by yeast towards process simplification and cost reduction. Saccharomyces cerevisiae YIL162W lacking the gene responsible for sucrose hydrolysis (SUC2) was transformed to express -fructofuranosidase FTase inv gene from Schwanniomyces occidentalis (clone GAL1_S196), and its mutated version (clone GAL1_L196), under the inducible galactokinase (GAL1) promotor. The FTase inv mutated gene was also expressed under the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPD) constitutive promoter (clone GPD_L196). GPD_L196 clone showed the highest potential for FOS production, achieving a maximum productivity of 8.9±0.4mg.g-1.h-1 after 60h, with sucrose supplementation by two pulses, 150g.L-1 at 0 and 24h. When co-cultured with S. cerevisiae wild type (WT), GPD_L196 clone achieved the maximum productivity of 10.9±0.5mg.g-1.h-1 (48h) with an 1:200 inoculum ratio (WT:GPD_L196) and 150g.L-1 of sucrose added at 0 and 24h. After partial purification, a sweetening mixture composed by 75±2% of FOS and 24±2% of sucrose was obtained. This bioprocess approach presents high potential for industrial production of functional sweetening mixtures towards food applications., Cláudia Amorim, João Rainha, Beatriz B. Cardoso and Daniela Gomes acknowledge their grants (2020.00293.CEECIND, SFRH/BD/138325/2018, SFRH/BD/132324/2017, and SFRH/BD/04433/2020, respectively) from Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). The study received financial support from FCT under the scope of the strategic funding of UIDB/04469/2020 unit and the project FoSynBio (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029549)., info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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- 2022