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D-lactic acid production by metabolically engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Poly D-lactic acid is an important polymer because it improves the thermostability of poly L-lactic acid by the stereo complex formation. We constructed a metabolically engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae that produces D-lactic acid efficiently. In this recombinant, the coding region of pyruvate decarboxylase 1 (PDC1) was completely deleted, and two copies of the D-lactate dehydrogenase ( D-LDH) gene from Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides strain NBRC3426 were introduced into the genome. The D-lactate production reached 61.5 g/l, the amount of glucose being transformed into D-lactic acid being 61.2% under neutralizing conditions. Additionally, the yield of free D-lactic acid was also shown to be 53.0% under non-neutralizing conditions. It was confirmed that D-lactic acid of extremely high optical purity of 99.9% or higher. Our finding obtained the possibility of a new approach for pure d-lactic acid production without a neutralizing process compared with other techniques involving lactic acid bacteria and transgenic Escherichia coli.[1]

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  1. D-lactic acid production by metabolically engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Ishida, N., Suzuki, T., Tokuhiro, K., Nagamori, E., Onishi, T., Saitoh, S., Kitamoto, K., Takahashi, H. J. Biosci. Bioeng. (2006) [Pubmed]
 
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