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Protein expression analysis revealed a fine-tuned mechanism of in situ detoxification pathway for the tolerant industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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Inhibitory compounds liberated from lignocellulose pretreatment are representative toxic chemicals that repress microbial growth and metabolism. A tolerant strain of the industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is able to detoxify a major class of toxic compounds while producing ethanol. Knowledge on the yeast tolerance was mostly obtained by gene expression analysis and limited protein expression evidence is yet available underlying the yeast adaptation. Here we report a comparative protein expression profiling study on Y-50049, a tolerant strain compared with its parental industrial type strain Y-12632. We found a distinctive protein expression of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (Zwf1) in Y-50049 but not in Y-12632, in the relatively conserved glycolysis and pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) in response to a combinational challenge of 2-furaldehyde (furfural) and 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furaldehyde (HMF). A group of proteins with aldehyde reduction activity was uniquely induced expressed in Y-50049 but not in Y-12632. Such evidence allowed fine-tuning a mechanism of the renovated in situ detoxification by Y-50049. As the key protein, Zwf1 drove the glucose metabolism in favor of the oxidative branch of the PPP facilitating in situ detoxification of the toxic chemicals by Y-50049. The activated expression of Zwf1 generated the essential cofactor nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) enabling reduction of furfural and HMF through a group of aldehyde reduction enzymes. In return, the activate aldehyde reductions released desirable feedbacks of NADP+ stimulating continued oxidative activity of Zwf1. Thus, a well-maintained cofactor regeneration cycle was established to restore the cofactor imbalance caused by furfural-HMF. Challenges and perspectives on adaptation of significantly differential expressions of ribosomal proteins and other unique proteins are also discussed.

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The authors are extremely grateful to the kind gift from Christopher Petzold at Joint BioEnergy Institute, US Department of Energy, for the protein detection applying their in-house developed LC-MS/MS technology. Without their generous support and the reproducible data obtained, this study would be impossible. Mention of trade names or commercial products in this publication is solely for the purpose of providing specific information and does not imply recommendation or endorsement by the US Department of Agriculture. USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

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    Z. Lewis Liu

  2. Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Xiaoqiu Huang

  3. Yellow Sea Fishery Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, 106 Nanning Road, Qingdao, 266071, Shandong, China

    Qian Zhou

  4. Single-Cell Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266101, Shandong, China

    Jian Xu

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Liu, Z.L., Huang, X., Zhou, Q. et al. Protein expression analysis revealed a fine-tuned mechanism of in situ detoxification pathway for the tolerant industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 103, 5781–5796 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-019-09906-9

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