102 results about "Pyruvate decarboxylase" patented technology

The invention relates to the genetic modification of Cyanobacteria for the production of ethanol, and more particularly, to the genetic modification of Cyanobacteria by incorporating the genetic information encoding for pyruvate decarboxylase (pdc) and alcohol dehydrogenase (adh).

A yeast strain, wherein the yeast strain is transformed with at least one copy of a gene coding for <SMALLCAPS>D</SMALLCAPS>-lactate dehydrogenase functionally linked to a promoter sequence allowing the expression of the gene in the yeast strain and the yeast strain has undergone disruption of one or more pyruvate decarboxylase genes or pyruvate dehydrogenase genes. Also, a method of producing <SMALLCAPS>D</SMALLCAPS>-lactic acid including culturing such a yeast strain in a medium and recovering <SMALLCAPS>D</SMALLCAPS>-lactic acid.

The present invention provides recombinant mircoorganisms comprising an isobutanol producing metabolic pathway and methods of using said recombinant microorganisms to produce isobutanol. In various aspects of the invention, the recombinant microorganisms may comprise a modification resulting in the reduction of pyruvate decarboxylase and/or glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity. In various embodiments described herein, the recombinant microorganisms may be microorganisms of the Saccharomyces clade, Crabtree-negative yeast microorganisms, Crabtree-positive yeast microorganisms, post-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, pre-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, and non-fermenting yeast microorganisms.

The present invention relates to a method of identifying a heterologous polypeptide having enzymatic activity for converting pyruvate, acetaldehyde or acetate into acetyl-CoA in (the cytosol of) a yeast cell comprising: a) providing a mutated yeast cell comprising a deletion of at least one gene of the (PDH) by-pass, selected from the genes encoding the enzymes pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC), acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALD), and acetyl-CoA synthetase (ACS); b) transforming said mutated yeast cell with an expression vector comprising a heterologous nucleotide sequence encoding a candidate polypeptide having potential enzymatic activity for converting pyruvate, acetaldehyde or acetate into acetyl-CoA; c) testing said recombinant mutated yeast cell for its ability to grow on minimal medium containing glucose as sole carbon source, and d) identifying said candidate polypeptide as a heterologous polypeptide having enzymatic activity for converting pyruvate, acetaldehyde or acetate into acetyl-CoA in (the cytosol of) said yeast cell when growth of said cell is observed. The invention further relates to a method of producing a fermentation production such as butanol.

The present invention discloses genetically-modified cyanobacteria with ethanol-production capabilities enhanced over the currently-reported art, and methods of making such cyanobacteria. The invention provides a genetically modified photoautotrophic, ethanol producing host cell comprising an overexpressed pyruvate decarboxylase enzyme converting pyruvate to acetaldehyde and an overexpressed Zn2+ dependent alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme converting acetaldehyde to ethanol.

We disclose a recombinant yeast, wherein the yeast is pyruvate decarboxylase enzyme (PDC) activity negative (PDC-negative) and is functionally transformed with a coding region encoding a pyruvate carboxylase enzyme (PYC) wherein the PYC is active in the cytosol, a coding region encoding a malate dehydrogenase enzyme (MDH) wherein the MDH is active in the cytosol and is not inactivated in the presence of glucose, and a coding region encoding a malic acid transporter protein (MAE). We also disclose a method of producing malic acid by culturing such a yeast in a medium comprising a carbon source and a carbon dioxide source and isolating malic acid from the medium.

A genetically engineered bacterium producing 2-phenylethanol and an applying method thereof are disclosed. The recombinant bacterium is constructed by coexpressing aromatic amino acid aminotransferase and exogenous phenylpyruvate decarboxylase (Aro10) (or indole-3-pyruvic acid decarboxylase), phenylethanol dehydrogenase or phenylacetaldehyde reductase in escherichia coli to obtain the recombinant bacterium producing the 2-phenylethanol. Glutamate dehydrogenase is coexpressed on this basis to achieve self-balancing cofactor circulation, thus increasing the yield of the 2-phenylethanol. The conversion ratio of the 2-phenylethanol prepared through the recombinant bacterium is high. The bacterium and the method have important application value in production of the 2-phenylethanol in the future.

The present invention relates to a transformant, containing a lactate dehydrogenase gene which is introduced into Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a host, in which a part of a gene cluster encoding a pyruvate decarboxylase in the Schizosaccharomyces pombe host is deleted or inactivated.

The invention which relates to the field of genetic engineering provides a constitutive expression cassette of Trichoderma reesei. The expression cassette comprises a foreign target gene, a promoter of a pyruvate decarboxylase gene (Ppdc) of Trichoderma reesei, and a terminator of the pyruvate decarboxylase gene (Tpdc) of Trichoderma reesei, wherein the nucleotide sequence of the Ppdc is represented by SEQ ID NO.1, and the nucleotide sequence of the Tpdc is represented by SEQ ID NO.2. The expression cassette which comprises the sequence of the Ppdc of Trichoderma reesei and the sequence of the Tpdc of Trichoderma reesei can express genes from animals, plant or fungi without induction, and can properly modify expression products, protein expression can be carried out with the highly efficient synthesis and secretion capability of Trichoderma reesei, the protein expression level is high, and excessive foreign proteins in the expression products can be avoided. A recombinant strain of the present invention can highly express xylanase without cellulose, and the xylanase has an important application in the papermaking industry.

The subject invention concerns the transformation of Gram-positive bacteria with heterologous genes which confer upon these microbes the ability to produce ethanol as a fermentation product. Specifically exemplified is the transformation of bacteria with genes, obtainable from Zymomonas mobilis, which encode pyruvate decarboxylase and alcohol dehydrogenase.

The invention relates to a colon bacillus alcohol fermentation engineering bacterium resisting alcohol. A colon bacillus mutant strain highly resisting the alcohol is obtained through a plurality of generations of directional screening; and an alcohol dehydrogenase gene II and a pyruvate decarboxylase gene of zymomonas mobilis are transferred into the mutant strain to obtain the novel colon bacillus alcohol fermentation engineering bacterium. When the engineering bacterium uses pentose and hexose as substrates to ferment for producing the alcohol, the engineering bacterium can still maintain higher fermentation rate under high-concentration alcohol, and has higher transformation rate of the alcohol.

The invention discloses lactic acid-producing engineering bacteria, a constructing method thereof and application thereof, and belongs to the field of fermentation engineering. In the genetic engineering bacterial strain provided by the invention, gene segments of lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), which are derived from Bovine, are integrated into S.cerevisiae genome by a homologous recombination method, and the pyruvic decarboxylase (PDC1) gene of the bacterial strain is silenced. The engineering bacterial strain obtained by constructing is used for fermenting and producing the lactic acid; after fermentation for 100 hours, the yield of the lactic acid reaches 15g/L, and the yield of ethanol is reduced by 45 percent less than a parent strain, namely 16.2g/L; and the engineering bacteria has a wide application prospect.

Known attempts using engineered bacteria to produce P(3HB-co-4HB) with carbon sources that are structurally unrelated to 4-hydroxybutyrate resulted in relatively low 4HB monomer content of 1.5 to 5 mol %. The current invention provides recombinant hosts for producing P(3HB-co-4HB) wherein the plasmid including succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase gene (sucD gene) and 4-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase gene (4hbD gene) further includes pyruvate decarboxylase promoter (P_pdc). It was found that the 4HB monomer content in P(3HB-co-4HB) is significantly enhanced to be over 20 mol %, in the range of 8.8 to 23 mol %.

The invention discloses an enzymatic method for preparing L-xylose and belongs to the field of bioengineering. In the method, 2-keto-L-gulonic acid is dissolved in a buffer containing magnesium ions and thiamine pyrophosphate, and pyruvate decarboxylase is added to the buffer for an enzyme-catalyzed reaction at a suitable temperature. After the end of the reaction, the production of the L-xylose is proved by a high performance liquid chromatograph. A new method for producing the L-xylose is found. The method is low in raw material cost, has no pollution to the environment, and has important economic and social benefits.

The invention discloses a method for synthesizing acetoin and a derivative thereof through a biological method, which belongs to the technical field of the molecular biology. The method comprises the steps of introducing pyruvate decarboxylase genes and genes with acetoin enzyme activity into host bacteria to obtain recombination bacteria, producing the acetoin by fermenting the recombination bacteria, and further producing 2,3-butanediol on the basis of the acetoin. By adopting the method, the acetoin and the 2,3-butanediol are successfully generated by fermenting the recombined bacteria strain, and the problem that the yield of the acetoin and the 2,3-butanediol is influenced by the consumption of an intermediate product acetyl emulsion in the natural production process can be solved.

An engineered bacterium for producing ethanol from one or more carbohydrates is disclosed. The bacterium can be made by (a) inactivating within a Lactobacillus casei bacterium one or more endogenous genes encoding a lactate dehydrogenase; or (b) introducing into a Lactobacillus casei bacterium one or more exogenous genes encoding a pyruvate decarboxylase and one or more exogenous genes encoding an alcohol dehydrogenase II; or (c) performing both steps (a) and (b). The resulting engineered bacterium produces significantly more ethanol than the wild-type Lactobacillus casei bacterium, and can be used in producing ethanol from a substrate such as biomass that includes carbohydrates.

The invention provides a genetic engineering blue-green alga for producing ethanol through photosynthesis. The genetic engineering blue-green alga contains exogenous pyruvate decarboxylase genes and ethanol dehydrogenase which are integrated in chromosomes. The invention further provides a construction body, a carrier and a preparation method for preparing the genetic engineering blue-green alga, and a method for producing ethanol by using the genetic engineering blue-green alga.