Increasing the carbon flux toward synthesis of short-chain-length-medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoate in the peroxisome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae through modification of the beta-oxidation cycle
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The short-chain-length-medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates are synthesized in Saccharomyces cerevisiae from intermediates of the beta-oxidation cycle by expressing the polyhydroxyalkanoate synthases from Aeromonas caviae and Ralstonia eutropha in the peroxisomes. Using a mutant of the beta-oxidation-associated multifunctional enzyme with low dehydrogenasse activity towards R-3-hydroxybutyryl coenzyme A increased the quantity of polymer produced.
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2004
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Modification of the monomer composition of polyhydroxyalkanoate synthesized in Saccharomyces cerevisiae expressing variants of the beta-oxidation-associated multifunctional enzyme
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The monomer composition of medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoate (MCL-PHA) produced in Saccharomyces cerevisiae peroxisomes through the manipulation of the enzymes of the core beta-oxidation cycle is modified. Results indicate that it was possible to modify the PHA monomer composition through an increase in the proportion of the short-chain monomers of five and six carbons.
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2003
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Synthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoate in the peroxisome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by using intermediates of fatty acid beta-oxidation
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae can be genetically modified to produce medium-chain polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA). PHA is of interest because it is a biodegradable polyester. The genetic modification includes the transformation of S. cerevisiae with the PHAC1 synthase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa targeted to the peroxisome.
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2001
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