Abstract
Glucose and xylulose fermentation and product formation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae were compared in batch culture under anaerobic conditions. In both cases the main product was ethanol, with glycerol, xylitol, and arabitol produced as by-products. During glucose and xylulose fermentation, 0.74 and 0.37 g of cell mass liter−1, respectively, were formed. In glucose-fermenting cells, the carbon balance could be closed, whereas in xylulose-fermenting cells, about 25% of the consumed sugar carbon could not be accounted for. The rate of sugar consumption was 3.94 mmol g of initial biomass−1 h−1 for glucose and 0.39 mmol g of initial biomass−1 h−1 for xylulose. Concentrations of the intermediary metabolites fructose-1,6-diphosphate (FDP), pyruvate (PYR), sedoheptulose 7-phosphate (S7P), erytrose 4-phosphate, citrate (CIT), fumarate, and malate were compared for both types of cells. Levels of FDP, PYR, and CIT were lower, and levels of S7P were higher in xylulose-fermenting cells. After normalization to the carbon consumption rate, the levels of FDP were approximately the same, whereas there was a significant accumulation of S7P, PYR, CIT, and malate, especially of S7P, in xylulose-fermenting cells compared with in glucose-fermenting cells. In the presence of 15 μM iodoacetate, an inhibitor of the enzyme glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.12), FDP levels increased and S7P levels decreased in xylulose-assimilating cells compared with in the absence of the inhibitor, whereas fermentation was slightly slowed down. The specific activity of transaldolase (EC 2.2.1.2), the pentose phosphate pathway enzyme reacting with S7P and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate, was essentially the same for both glucose- and xylulose-fermenting cells. It was, however, several orders of magnitude lower than that reported for a Torula yeast and Candida utilis. The presence of iodoacetate did not influence the activity of transaldolase in xylulose-fermenting cells. The results are discussed in terms of a competition between the pentose phosphate pathway and glycolysis for the common metabolite, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate, which would explain the low rates of xylulose assimilation and ethanol production from xylulose by S. cerevisiae.
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