Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Treatment of micro-organisms or enzymes with electrical or... – Modification of viruses
Patent
1991-07-22
1993-12-07
Schwartz, Richard A.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Treatment of micro-organisms or enzymes with electrical or...
Modification of viruses
43525421, 435194, 435161, 4353201, C12N 1563, C12N 119
Patent
active
052682854
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a process for increasing the rate of production of carbon dioxide, ethanol and other fermentation products such as citric acid, produced by yeast such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae during fermentation, and decreasing biomass production by regulating the rate of glycolysis indirectly through changing the energy balance of the cell, i.e., by reducing intracellular ATP levels. Modifications for so altering the glycolysis rate involve the use of either a regulated ATP hydrolysis within the cell or a regulated leakage of ATP from the cell. This invention encompasses several ways for altering the yeast ATP level including (a) engaging futile metabolic cycles to increase ATP consumption; and (b) using an altered exocellular acid phosphatase so that it becomes intracellular to increase intracellular ATP hydrolysis; by which alterations in the ATP level may be turned off during growth of the yeast on a commercial scale, and then turned on before or during, and preferably before or at a very early stage of, the dough-rising phase.
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Szostak Jack W.
Berstein David L.
Eisen Bruce M.
Genetics Institute Inc.
Ketter James
McDaniels Patricia A.
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