Figure 3From: Altering the coenzyme preference of xylose reductase to favor utilization of NADH enhances ethanol yield from xylose in a metabolically engineered strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiaeXylose utilization and product formation during oxygen-limited shake flask cultivation of BP000 (panel A) and BP10001 (panel B). Xylose (full squares), ethanol (triangles), xylitol (circles), glycerol (stars) and acetate (empty squares) were analyzed by HPLC. The biomass concentration was constant at 1.4 ± 0.1 g/L for BP000 and 1.5 ± 0.1 g/L for BP10001. Error bars show the S.D. of triplicate fermentation experiments.Back to article page