The engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for lactose utilization has been attempted with the intent of developing high productivity processes for alcoholic fermentation of cheese whey. A recombinant S. cerevisiae flocculent strain that efficiently ferments lactose to ethanol was previously obtained by evolutionary engineering of an original recombinant that displayed poor lactose fermentation perform...
In previous work, a recombinant S. cerevisiae flocculent strain (NCYC869-A3/T1, or simply T1) with the ability to express both the LAC4 (coding for beta-galactosidase) and LAC12 (lactose permease) genes of Kluyveromyces lactis was constructed (Domingues et al., Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 51:621–626, 1999). The original recombinant obtained (T1) was able to metabolise lactose but slowly. Thus, it was subjected to...
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