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| Author(s): |
Osmar Vaz de Carvalho Netto
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia |
| Defense date: | 2012-07-31 |
| Examining board members: |
Gonçalo Amarante Guimarães Pereira;
Pedro de Oliva Neto;
Iran Malavazi;
Marcelo Menossi;
Jorge Mauricio Costa Mondego
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| Advisor: | Gonçalo Amarante Guimarães Pereira; Juan Lucas Argueso |
| Abstract | |
The alcoholic fermentation performed by yeasts of the specie Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the main current process to produce ethanol from renewable resources (bioethanol) under economic scale. However, strains isolated two decades ago have been gradually losing their original fermentative fitness during the years, decreasing the process yield and stability. One of the factors that contribute for these losses is associated with the meaningful process operational changes along these years. In addition to that, there is a knowledge gap regarding the genetic bases of the commercial strains used on Brazil, not leading to success of the genetic improvements programs. Hereupon, this work propose in a first time way a complete characterization, expression analysis and genetic manipulation study of PE-2, one of the most important strain used on Brazilian process. To this, structure, composition and regulation data of the genome were produced. From such information, it was developed by genetic manipulations assays an auxotrophic yeast for uracile (biological plataform) and others strains with superior fermentative characteristics in comparison with the wild isolated. The concept that the success of precise manipulations depends on the previous detailed knowledge of the interest strain, regarding the genetic and physiology bases, was confirmed herein. The data presented here also establish new perspectives for the construction of a second generation strains even more robusts, designed not only for the bioethanol production, but also to be applied on different biotechnological processes (AU) | |