A New Pathway for Mannitol Metabolism in Yeasts Suggests a Link to the Evolution of Alcoholic Fermentation

A New Pathway for Mannitol Metabolism in Yeasts Suggests a Link to the Evolution of Alcoholic Fermentation

The yeasts belonging to the Wickerhamiella and Starmerella genera (W/S clade) share a distinctive evolutionary history marked by loss and subsequent reinstatement of alcoholic fermentation mediated by horizontal gene transfer events. Species in this clade also share unusual features of metabolism, n...

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Main Authors: Carla Gonçalves, Carolina Ferreira, Luís G. Gonçalves, David L. Turner, Maria José Leandro, Madalena Salema-Oom, Helena Santos, Paula Gonçalves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
alcoholic fermentation
yeast metabolism
mannitol metabolism
Starmerella
fructophily
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02510/full

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