Pichia stipitisNAD+-dependent xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH), a medium-chain
dehydrogenase/reductase, is one of the key enzymes in ethanol fermentation from xylose …

Effects of reversal coenzyme specificity toward NADP+ and thermostabilization of xylitol
dehydrogenase (XDH) from Pichia stipitis on fermentation of xylose to ethanol were …

A recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain transformed with xylose reductase (XR)
and xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH) genes from Pichia stipitis (PsXR and PsXDH, respectively) …

Directed mutagenesis has been used to identify a set of amino acids in the Pichia stipitis
xylitol dehydrogenase, encoded by the xylitol dehydrogenase gene XYL2, which is involved …

Xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH) is one of several enzymes responsible for assimilating xylose
into eukaryotic metabolism and is useful for fermentation of xylose contained in agricultural …

A major problem when xylose is used for ethanol production is the intercellular redox
imbalance arising from different coenzyme specificities of xylose reductase (XR) and xylitol …

Background Xylose reductase (XR) and xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH) from Pichia stipitis are
the two enzymes most commonly used in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains …

A recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain transformed with xylose reductase (XR)
and xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH) genes from Pichia stipitis has the ability to convert xylose …

We focused on the effects of a mutation of xylose reductase from Pichia stipitis (Ps XR) on
xylose-to-ethanol fermentation using recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae transformed …

Abstract Background Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for xylose
fermentation into fuel ethanol has oftentimes relied on insertion of a heterologous pathway …