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. 2023 Nov 28;11:e16340. doi: 10.7717/peerj.16340

Table 2. Deletion targets that contribute to improved xylose metabolism in S. cerevisiae.

Deletion targets Relevant genetic background Reported phenotype improvement Reference
GRE3 Thermus thermophilus XYLA/XKS1 Xylitol formation decreased two-fold, and which produced ethanol from xylose with a yield of 0.28 mmol (Träff et al., 2001)
Thermus thermophilus mutated XYLA / XKS1 Deletion of GRE3 was crucial for ethanol production as reduction of xylitol formation was observed (Lönn et al., 2003)
NFG1 / MNI1 / RPA49 Scheffersomyces stipitis XYL1 and XYL2 / XKS1 Improved growth rates on xylose in aerobiosis compared to the reference strain: 173% (nfg1Δ), 62% (mni1Δ) and 90% (rpa49Δ) faster (Bengtsson et al., 2008)
NFG1 XYL1 / XYL2 / XKS1 Improvement of xylose consumption at low concentrations and in co-fermentation of glucose and xylose; deletion of NFG1 improved aerobic growth on xylose (Parachin et al., 2010)
BUD21 / ALP1 / ISC1 / RPL20B XYLA / XKS1 Individual deletion of the 4 genes improved xylose assimilation in 27.6% (bud21Δ), 15.5% (alp1Δ), 22.4% (isc1Δ) and 12.1% (rpl20bΔ); production of ethanol in bud21Δ cells even without the presence XYLA (Usher et al., 2011)
PMR1 Piromyces sp. XYLA / XKS1 / RKI1 / RPE1 / TKL1 / TKL2 / TAL1 / NQM1 / gre3Δ Deletion of PMR1 allowed anaerobic growth on xylose (Verhoeven et al., 2017)
PMR1 / ASC1 Piromyces mutated XYLA3* / TAL1 / XKS1 / gre3Δ / pho13Δ Mutated PMR1 and ASC1 consumed 114.8% and 59.6% more xylose in relation to the control, respectively (Tran Nguyen Hoang et al., 2018)
GRE3 / HOG1 / IRA2 / ISU1 Clostridium phytofermentans XYLA / TAL1 / S. stipitis XYL3 The mutation in IRA2 only affects anaerobic xylose consumption; loss of ISU1 function is indispensable for anaerobic xylose fermentation; Faster conversion of xylose obtained by deleting the gre3Δ, hog1Δ, ira2Δ and isu1Δ genes simultaneously (Sato et al., 2016)
ISU1 / SSK2 Orpinomyces sp. XYLA / XKS1 / RKI1 / RPE1 / TKL1 / TKL2 / TAL1 / gre3Δ ISU1 or SSK2 null strains showed improvement in xylose metabolism in unevolved yeast cells (dos Santos et al., 2016)
PHO13 Scheffersomyces stipitis XYL1 and XYL2 Improvement in xylose assimilation (Ni, Laplaza & Jeffries, 2007)
Scheffersomyces stipitis XYL1, XYL2 and XYL3 Upregulation of the enzymes from PPP and NADPH-producing enzymes; improved xylose metabolism (Kim et al., 2015)
Scheffersomyces stipitis XYL1, XYL2 and XYL3 Transcriptional activation of genes from PPP; 98% reduction of sedoheptulose by upregulation of tal1 in mutant strains (pho13Δ) (Xu et al., 2016)
PHO13 / ALD6 Scheffersomyces stipitis XYL1 and XYL2 pho13Δ strains presented a shorter lag time using xylose as carbon source and showed an improved xylose fermentation / ald6Δ strains showed improvement in the efficiency of xylose fermentation and prevention of acetate accumulation (Kim et al., 2013)
GCR2 Scheffersomyces stipitis XYL1, XYL2 and XYL3 gcr2Δ cells with better xylose utilization and ethanol production. (Shin et al., 2021)
THI2 Ru-XYLA (where Ru represents the rumen bovine) / XKS1 / RKI1 / RPE1 / TKL1 / TKL2 / TAL1 / cox4Δ / gre3Δ Deletion increases 17.4% in growth rate, increase of 26.8% in specific xylose utilization rate and 32.4% increase in specific ethanol production rate in co-fermentation of glucose and xylose (Wei et al., 2018)
CCC1 / BSD2 Orpinomyces sp. XYLA / XKS1 / RKI1 / RPE1 / TKL1 / TKL2 / TAL1 / gre3Δ ccc1Δ and bsd2Δ strains had a 9-fold and 2.3-fold increase in xylose consumption (Palermo et al., 2021)
HAP4 Scheffersomyces stipitis XYL1, XYL2 and XYL3 hap4Δ strain: 1.8-fold increase in ethanol production from xylose; production of 10.38 g/L of ethanol; ethanol yield of 0.41 g/g of xylose (Dzanaeva et al., 2021)