Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Yeonjung Lee

Youngsoon Um

Sun Mi Lee

Gyeongtaek Gong

Ja Kyong Ko

Phuong Nguyen Hoang Tran

The present specification relates to a transformed yeast strain capable of simultaneously utilizing xylose and glucose as carbon sources, a preparation method thereof and a biofuel production method using the same. The transformed yeast strain transforms a wild-type yeast strain incapable of using xylose as a carbon source and simultaneously convert glucose and xylose, thereby enabling high yield production of a biofuel. The economics and sustainability of the biofuel and biomaterial production processes can be highly enhanced by providing a strain which can easily be converted to a strain capable of producing a biofuel/material in a high yield through an additional modification.

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Seoul, South Korea

Yeonjung Lee