Evolutionary engineering improves tolerance for medium-chain alcohols in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Stephanie A Davis LópezDouglas Andrew GriffithBrian ChoiJamie H D CateDanielle Tullman-Ercek

Published in: Biotechnology for biofuels (2018)

We successfully generated S. cerevisiae strains that have improved tolerance toward medium-chain alcohols and have demonstrated that the causative mutations overcome inhibition of translation initiation by these alcohols.

Keyphrases

saccharomyces cerevisiae
escherichia coli
genome wide
dna methylation