Xylitol is a highly valuable commodity chemical used extensively in the food and pharmaceutical industries. The production of xylitol from d-xylose involves a costly and polluting catalytic hydrogenation process. Biotechnological production from lignocellulosic biomass by micro-organisms like yeasts is a promising option. In this study, xylitol is produced from lignocellulosic biomass by a recombinant strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae) (YPH499-SsXR-AaBGL) expressing cytosolic xylose reductase (Scheffersomyces stipitis xylose reductase [SsXR]), along with a β-d-glucosidase (Aspergillus aculeatus β-glucosidase 1 [AaBGL]) displayed on the cell surface. The simultaneous cofermentation of cellobiose/xylose by this strain leads to an ≈2.5-fold increase in Yxylitol/xylose (=0.54) compared to the use of a glucose/xylose mixture as a substrate. Further improvement in the xylose uptake by the cell is achieved by a broad evaluation of several homologous and heterologous transporters. Homologous maltose transporter (ScMAL11) shows the best performance in xylose transport and is used to generate the strain YPH499-XR-ScMAL11-BGL with a significantly improved xylitol production capacity from cellobiose/xylose coutilization. This report constitutes a promising proof of concept to further scale up the biorefinery industrial production of xylitol from lignocellulose by combining cell surface and metabolic engineering in S. cerevisiae.

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Guirimand GGY, Bamba T, Matsuda M, Inokuma K, Morita K, Kitada Y, Kobayashi Y, Yukawa T, Sasaki K, Ogino C, ... Show all

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