2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Effective utilization of oxidative fermentation mechanism of acetic acid bacteria by engineering of energy metabolism
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23658070
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Applied microbiology
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
ARAI Hiroyuki 東京大学, 大学院・農学生命科学研究科, 助教 (70291052)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | 酢酸菌 / 酸化発酵 / 不完全酸化 / Acetobacter |
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| Research Abstract |
Acetic acid bacteria have the distinctive ability to produce organic acids by the incomplete oxidization of various alcohols and sugars. Transcriptome analysis of the wild type and the strain utilized for vinegar production under various growth conditions revealed that ethanol significantly represses the genes for the TCA cycle enzymes and that might cause the temporal accumulation of acetate. Comparative genome analysis have shown that the genes for the glyoxylate pathway are missing in the strains utilized for vinegar production. Deletion of those genes in the wild-type strain caused delay of acetate consumption, indicating that the loss of the glyoxylate pathway is beneficial for vinegar production.
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