Short communication: Conversion of lactose and whey into lactic acid by engineered yeast

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• 作者：Timothy L. Turner^* ; ^&dagger ; ; Eunbee Kim^&Dagger ; ; ChangHoon Hwang^§ ; ; Guo-Chang Zhang^* ; ^&dagger ; ; Jing-Jing Liu^* ; ^&dagger ; ; Yong-Su Jin^* ; ^&dagger ; ; ^{ysjin@illinois.edu}
• 关键词：lactic acid ; yeast ; whey ; lactose
• 刊名：Journal of Dairy Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：100
• 期：1
• 页码：124-128
• 全文大小：304 K
• 卷排序：100

文摘

Lactose is often considered an unwanted and wasted byproduct, particularly lactose trapped in acid whey from yogurt production. But using specialized microbial fermentation, the surplus wasted acid whey could be converted into value-added chemicals. The baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is commonly used for industrial fermentation, cannot natively ferment lactose. The present study describes how an engineered S. cerevisiae yeast was constructed to produce lactic acid from purified lactose, whey, or dairy milk. Lactic acid is an excellent proof-of-concept chemical to produce from lactose, because lactic acid has many food, pharmaceutical, and industrial uses, and over 250,000 t are produced for industrial use annually. To ferment the milk sugar lactose, a cellodextrin transporter (CDT-1, which also transports lactose) and a β-glucosidase (GH1-1, which also acts as a β-galactosidase) from Neurospora crassa were expressed in a S. cerevisiae strain. A heterologous lactate dehydrogenase (encoded by ldhA) from the fungus Rhizopus oryzae was integrated into the CDT-1/GH1-1–expressing strain of S. cerevisiae. As a result, the engineered strain was able to produce lactic acid from purified lactose, whey, and store-bought milk. A lactic acid yield of 0.358 g/g of lactose was achieved from whey fermentation, providing an initial proof of concept for the production of value-added chemicals from excess industrial whey using engineered yeast.