Intracellular trehalose accumulation via the Agt1 transporter promotes freeze-thaw tolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Anqi ChenPatrick A GibneyPublished in: Journal of applied microbiology (2022)
These findings are relevant to improving the freeze-thaw tolerance of baker's yeast in the frozen baked goods industry through engineering strains that can accumulate intracellular trehalose via a constitutively expressed trehalose transporter and inclusion of trehalose into the growth medium.