Kluyveromyces marxianus: An emerging yeast cell factory for applications in food and biotechnology

A Karim, N Gerliani, M Aïder - International Journal of Food Microbiology, 2020 - Elsevier
Several yeasts, which are eukaryotic microorganisms, have long been used in different
industries due to their potential applications, both for fermentation and for the production of …

Challenges and progress towards industrial recombinant protein production in yeasts: a review

P De Brabander, E Uitterhaegen, T Delmulle… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recombinant proteins (RP) are widely used as biopharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes, or
sustainable food source. Yeasts, with their ability to produce complex proteins through a …

Bioprospecting Kluyveromyces marxianus as a Robust Host for Industrial Biotechnology

M Bilal, L Ji, Y Xu, S Xu, Y Lin, HMN Iqbal… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Kluyveromyces marxianus is an emerging non-conventional food-grade yeast that is
generally isolated from diverse habitats, like kefir grain, fermented dairy products, sugar …

The pentose phosphate pathway in yeasts–more than a poor cousin of glycolysis

LK Bertels, L Fernández Murillo, JJ Heinisch - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) is a route that can work in parallel to glycolysis in
glucose degradation in most living cells. It has a unidirectional oxidative part with glucose-6 …

Pentose metabolism and conversion to biofuels and high-value chemicals in yeasts

J Ruchala, AA Sibirny - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Pentose sugars are widespread in nature and two of them, D-xylose and L-arabinose
belong to the most abundant sugars being the second and third by abundance sugars in dry …

Kluyveromyces as promising yeast cell factories for industrial bioproduction: From bio-functional design to applications

Y Qiu, P Lei, R Wang, L Sun, Z Luo, S Li, H Xu - Biotechnology Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
As the two most widely used Kluyveromyces yeast, Kluyveromyces marxianus and K. lactis
have gained increasing attention as microbial chassis in biocatalysts, biomanufacturing and …

Valorisation of pectin-rich agro-industrial residues by yeasts: potential and challenges

LC Martins, CC Monteiro, PM Semedo… - Applied Microbiology and …, 2020 - Springer
Pectin-rich agro-industrial residues are feedstocks with potential for sustainable
biorefineries. They are generated in high amounts worldwide from the industrial processing …

Rational engineering of Kluyveromyces marxianus to create a chassis for the production of aromatic products

AS Rajkumar, JP Morrissey - Microbial Cell Factories, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus offers unique potential for
industrial biotechnology because of useful features like rapid growth, thermotolerance and a …

merlin, an improved framework for the reconstruction of high-quality genome-scale metabolic models

J Capela, D Lagoa, R Rodrigues, E Cunha… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Genome-scale metabolic models have been recognised as useful tools for better
understanding living organisms' metabolism. merlin (https://www. merlin-sysbio. org/) is an …

Non-conventional yeasts as alternatives in modern baking for improved performance and aroma enhancement

N Zhou, T Semumu, A Gamero - Fermentation, 2021 - mdpi.com
Saccharomyces cerevisiae remains the baker's yeast of choice in the baking industry.
However, its ability to ferment cereal flour sugars and accumulate CO2 as a principal role of …