Publications by authors named "Bin Zhuge"

Cellulosic ethanol has become a hot spot in bioethanol research due to its advantages of low raw material price and abundant sources. However, inhibitory substances produced during lignocellulosic pretreatment inhibited yeast growth and fermentation. In this study, alkali pretreatment maximally disrupted the lignocellulose surface and yielded the highest concentration of fermentable sugars after enzymatic hydrolysis.

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Enhanced Candida glycerinogenes xylose metabolism as well as acetic acid metabolism for lipid production from undetoxified lignocellulosic hydrolysate. The C. glycerinogenes after overexpression of HAP3 increased the xylose assimilation capacity and the xylitol production decreased by 66.

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Objectives: Expressing cellulase systems in C. glycerinogenes with extracellular secretion ability, and using fermentation with residue, enabled the recombinant strain to degrade lignocellulosic waste for efficient glycerol production, offering new option for agricultural waste transformation.

Results: Candida glycerinogenes is employed as the host strain, various cellulases were screened.

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(-)-α-Bisabolol is one of the important derivatives in the mevalonate (MVA) pathway. Yeast not only possesses a complete MVA metabolic pathway but also has mature modification and optimization strategies, among which transcription factor regulation is a very effective method. In this study, by screening transcription factors associated with the MVA pathway, a new regulatory factor, ECM22, was discovered that can be used for terpenoid synthesis, and ECM22 proved to be the most effective compared to other screened transcription factors.

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DegSU quorum sensing (QS) system enables autoinducible expression of recombinant proteins in . However, insufficient promoter strength and a complex regulatory circuit limit its practical application. Here, the QS-responsive promoter P was modified by core region mutation, upstream truncation, and addition of activating binding sites, yielding P with a 118.

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The hydrolysis of cellulose generates inhibitors like acetate, suppressing fermentation performance. Here, 25SrRNA methyltransferase CgBMT5 from stress-tolerant yeast Candida glycerinogenes was used as an anti-stress gene element in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Yarrowia lipolytica. Expression of CgBMT5 in S.

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  • The study focuses on how toxicants in unwashed hydrolysates affect glycerol production in Candida glycerinogenes, suggesting they might actually enhance fermentation.
  • Unwashed hydrolysate contained higher amounts of harmful substances compared to washed hydrolysate, yet it yielded 36.1 g/L of glycerol, which is 15.8% more than the washed version.
  • The presence of toxicants increased the expression of specific genes linked to glycerol production, leading to further increases in glycerol yield, demonstrating that these components can be beneficial for microbial fermentation.
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  • M5 and Goji Berry extract were co-microencapsulated to enhance cell viability during digestion, with a focus on how they maintain cell activity.
  • The microcapsules containing 3% Goji Berry extract showed a high encapsulation efficiency of 92.41%, and their structure was smoother and denser compared to others.
  • After digestion, the A-GE-3 microcapsules maintained a significant level of viable cells (7.17 log CFU/g), while enhancing cell membrane stability and nutrient content, indicating Goji Berry extract's potential as a protective probiotic agent.
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NAD is a redox coenzyme and is the center of energy metabolism. In metabolic engineering modifications, an insufficient NAD(H) supply often limits the accumulation of target products. In this study, was found to be able to supply NAD(H) in large fluxes, up to 7.

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Background: Carboxypeptidase is an exopeptidase that hydrolyzes amino acids at the C-terminal end of the peptide chain and has a wide range of applications in food. However, in industrial applications, the relatively low catalytic efficiency of carboxypeptidases is one of the main limiting factors for industrialization.

Results: The study has enhanced the catalytic efficiency of Bacillus megaterium M32 carboxypeptidase (BmeCPM32) through semi-rational design.

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Caffeic acid (CA) is a phenolic acid compound widely used in pharmaceutical and food applications. However, the efficient synthesis of CA is usually limited by the resources of individual microbial platforms. Here, a cross-kingdom microbial consortium was developed to synthesize CA from sugarcane bagasse hydrolysate using and as chassis.

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Geraniol is an attractive natural monoterpene with significant industrial and commercial value in the fields of pharmaceuticals, condiments, cosmetics, and bioenergy. The biosynthesis of monoterpenes suffers from the availability of key intermediates and enzyme-to-substrate accessibility. Here, we addressed these challenges in by a plasma membrane-anchoring strategy and achieved sustainable biosynthesis of geraniol using bagasse hydrolysate as substrate.

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is an industrial yeast with excellent multistress resistance. However, due to the diploid genome and the lack of meiosis and screening markers, its molecular genetic operation is limited. Here, a gene editing system using the toxin-antitoxin pair from the type II toxin-antitoxin system in as a screening marker was constructed.

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Glycerol is an important platform compound with multidisciplinary applications, and glycerol production using low-cost sugar cane bagasse hydrolysate is promising. , an industrial yeast strain known for its high glycerol production capability, has been found to thrive in bagasse hydrolysate obtained through a simple treatment without detoxification. The engineered exhibited significant resistance to furfural, acetic acid, and 3,4-dimethylbenzaldehyde within undetoxified hydrolysates.

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As a desirable microbial cell factory, has garnered extensive utilization in metabolic engineering. Nevertheless, the lack of fine-tuned gene expression components has significantly constrained the potential scope of applications. Here, a gradient strength promoter library was constructed by random hybridization and high-throughput screening.

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The biosynthesis of 2-phenylethanol (2-PE) at high yields and titers is often limited by its toxicity. In this study, we describe the molecular mechanisms of 2-PE tolerance in the multi-stress tolerant industrial yeast, Candida glycerinogenes. They were different under 2-PE addition or fermentation conditions.

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Aims: To investigate the effect of CgMCUR1 on the phenotype of Candida glycerinogenes and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Methods And Results: Inhibition of CgMCUR1 expression reduced acetate, H2O2, and high temperature tolerance of C. glycerinogenes.

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Geraniol is a class of natural products that are widely used in the aroma industry due to their unique aroma. Here, to achieve the synthesis of geraniol and alleviate the intense competition from the yeast ergosterol pathway, a transcription factor-mediated ergosterol feedback system was developed in this study to autonomously regulate ergosterol metabolism and redirect carbon flux to geraniol synthesis. In addition, the modification of ergosterol-responsive promoters, the optimization of transcription factor expression intensity, and stepwise metabolic engineering resulted in a geraniol titer of 531.

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Caffeic acid is a phenolic acid compound widely applied in the food and pharmaceutical fields. Currently, one of the reasons for the low yield of caffeic acid biosynthesis is that the carbon flow enters mainly into the TCA cycle via pyruvate, which leads to low concentrations of erythrose 4-phosphate (E4P) and phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), the precursors of caffeic acid synthesis. Here, we developed a growth-coupled dual-layered dynamic regulation system.

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α-Pinene is a naturally occurring monoterpene, which is widely used in fragrances, cosmetics, and foods. Due to the high cellular toxicity of α-pinene, this work considered the application of , an effective industrial strain with high resistance, in α-pinene synthesis. It was found that α-pinene-induced stress resulted in an intracellular accumulation of reactive oxygen species with an increased formation of squalene as a cytoprotective compound.

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Terpenes have many applications and are widely found in nature, but recent progress in synthetic biology has enabled the use of microorganisms as chassis cells for the synthesis of these compounds. Candida glycerinogenes (C. glycerinogenes) is an industrial strain that may be developed as a chassis for the synthesis of terpenes since it has a tolerance to hyperosmolality and high sugar, and has a complete mevalonate (MVA) pathway.

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Due to the lack of available episomal plasmid, the improvement of many industrial strains, especially exogenous gene expression, is severely restricted. The failure of autonomous replication or low copy number of episomal plasmids is the main reason for the failure of many episomal plasmids construction. In this paper, Candida glycerinogenes, an industrial strain lacking episomal plasmids, was employed as the topic.

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Substrate uptake and product export are important for microbial growth and product synthesis. Here, the glycerol uptake facilitator (GlpF) and the members of the resistance-nodulation-cell division (RND) type efflux system were overexpressed in Klebsiella pneumoniae to promote 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO) production. Overexpression of the endogenous K.

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Pinene is a commercially important monoterpene that can be prepared using engineered bacterial and yeast species; however, high pinene levels can adversely affect the stability and permeability of microbial membranes leading to significantly reduced growth yields. This study reports that the fluidities and permeabilities of cell membranes of Candida glycerinogenes decrease as pinene levels increase resulting in adverse effects on cell growth. Exposure of cells to pinene results in upregulation of the genes encoding ergosterol and trehalose whose production helps stabilize their cell membranes.

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Cellulose is one of the main raw materials for production of green ethanol, but the presence of the growth inhibitor furfural in non-detoxified lignocellulosic hydrolysates often seriously affects their utilization. In a previous study, we obtained strains of Candida glycerinogenes that were tolerant to furfural, but at concentrations above 2.5 g L there was a significant increase in the growth lag phase.

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