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. 2019 Mar 11;18:50. doi: 10.1186/s12934-019-1101-5

Table 2.

Cultivation parameters of S. cerevisiae ST938 grown in continuous cultures at a dilution rate of 0.04 h−1 under carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) limited conditions

Chemostat [0.04 h−1]
C-limitation N-limitation P-limitation
YX/S (g mol−1) 78.4 ± 0.6 72.4 ± 0.5 75.2 ± 1.9
YEtOH/S (mol mol−1) 0.09 ± 0.03 0.05 ± 0.01 0.04 ± 0.01
YGly/S (mol mol−1) 0.03 ± 0.01 0.09 ± 0.01 0.01 ± 0.00
Y3-HP/S (mol mol−1) 0.33 ± 0.03 0.36 ± 0.04 0.42 ± 0.01
Y3-HP/S (%C-mol) 16.6 ± 1.7 17.7 ± 1.9 21.1 ± 1.8
Y3-HP/X (g gCDW−1) 0.43 ± 0.04 0.44 ± 0.05 0.50 ± 0.01
qS (mmol gCDW−1 h−1) 0.51 ± 0.13 0.61 ± 0.01 0.54 ± 0.01
qGly (mmol gCDW−1 h−1) 0.01 ± 0.00 0.06 ± 0.01 0.01 ± 0.00
qEtOH (mmol gCDW−1 h−1) 0.05 ± 0.02 0.03 ± 0.01 0.02 ± 0.01
q3-HP (mmol gCDW−1 h−1) 0.17 ± 0.06 0.22 ± 0.02 0.23 ± 0.01
Glcres (mM) 0.07 ± 0.00 0.63 ± 0.13 0.19 ± 0.03
PO4res (mM) n.a. n.a. b.d.
NH4res (mM) n.a. b.d. n.a.

Errors correspond to the standard deviations derived from triplicate cultivations. The C-limitation data were taken from Table 1 for simplicity of comparison

Y yield, q rate, X biomass, S substrate (glucose), EtOH ethanol, Gly glycerin, 3-HP 3-hydroxypropionic acid, Glcres residual glucose, PO4res residual phosphate, NH4res residual ammonium, n.a. not applicable, n.d. not determined, b.d. below detection limit