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. 2014 Apr 23;14:28. doi: 10.1186/1472-6750-14-28

Table 2.

Maximum specific growth rates and product yields in anaerobic batch fermentation of 20 g/L glucose and 50 g/L xylose in defined medium (2X YNB) using strains TMB3455, TMB3457 and TMB3459

 
Glucose phase
Xylose phase
  TMB3455 (control) TMB3457 ( OSM1 ) TMB3459 ( OSM1 ERO1 ) TMB3455 (control) TMB3457 ( OSM1 ) TMB3459 ( OSM1 ERO1 )
μmax (1/h)
0.29 ± 0.012
0.30 ± 0.019
0.32 ± 0.044
0.029 ± 0.002
0.018 ± 0.001
0.028 ± 0.003
Yields per substrate (mol/mol sugar)
Y xylt/s



0.24 ± 0.03
0.25 ± 0.01
0.20 ± 0.02
Y glyc/s
0.22 ± 0.02
0.20 ± 0.02
0.20 ± 0.05
0.020 ± 0.000
0.016 ± 0.002
0.012 ± 0.001
Y ac/s
0.020 ± 0.001
0.012 ± 0.000
0.017 ± 0.005
0.019 ± 0.001
0.031 ± 0.003
0.029 ± 0.003
Y etoh/s
1.87 ± 0.14
1.96 ± 0.21
1.96 ± 0.37
1.03 ± 0.00
1.24 ± 0.15
0.87 ± 0.00
Y succ/s
0.003 ± 0.000
0.001 ± 0.000
0.002 ± 0.001
0.009 ± 0.000
0.007 ± 0.002
0.006 ± 0.000
Yx/s (g/mol)
10.4 ± 0.5
10.5 ± 0.2
11.9 ± 0.9
3.8 ± 0.4
2.7 ± 0.6
3.9 ± 0.4
Yields per biomass (mmol/g CDW)
Y xylt/x



63.1 ± 0.3
92.9 ± 25.8
50.3 ± 0.8
Y glyc/x
20.2 ± 0.8
18.3 ± 0.5
16.6 ± 0.2
5.2 ± 0.6
5.8 ± 0.7
3.2 ± 0.6
Y ac/x
2.1 ± 0.1
1.8 ± 0.1
1.8 ± 0.0
5.1 ± 0.3
11.7 ± 1.8
7.3 ± 0.0
Y etoh/x
153 ± 8
153 ± 11
147 ± 7
271 ± 30
458 ± 53
223 ± 23
Y succ/x 0.19 ± 0.04 0.28 ± 0.18 0.22 ± 0.04 2.5 ± 0.4 2.4 ± 0.3 1.6 ± 0.22

Values are given as mean ± standard deviation of two independent experiments. Data for strains TMB3456 and TMB3458 is reported in Additional file 2: Table S3.