TABLE 5.

Maximum specific growth rates of S. cerevisiae strains TMB 3152, TMB 3155, TMB 3159, and TMB 3160 grown in shake flasks in a defined mineral medium supplemented with glucose, ethanol, xylulose, and xylose

S. cerevisiae strain	Relevant genotype	Maximum specific growth rate (μmax [h−1])a
		Glucose	Xylose	Xylulose	Ethanol
TMB 3155	Overexpressed YCR020c	0.35	0.01	0.05	0.06
TMB 3152	Reference	0.34	0.02	0.05	0.05
TMB 3160	Deleted YCR020c	0.35	0.07	0.06	0.04
TMB 3159	Reference	0.37	0.07	0.04	0.03

^aGlucose, 20 g liter⁻¹; xylose, 10 g liter⁻¹; Xylulose, 10 g liter⁻¹; ethanol, 10 g liter⁻¹. Values are means of duplicate experiments in which the relative error was less than 2%