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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2015
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Eckhard Boles, Darmstadt, DE;
Alexander Farwick, La Madeleine, FR;
Ferdinand Kirchner, Darmstadt, DE;
Virginia Schadeweg, Frankfurt, DE;
Mislav Oreb, Frankfurt, DE;
Lallemand Hungary Liquidity Management LLC, Budapest, HU;
Abstract
The present invention relates to polypeptides which are Gal2 variants comprising at least one amino acid substitution at a position corresponding to M435, and optionally further amino acid substitution(s). The present invention further relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding the polypeptides and to host cells containing said nucleic acid molecules. The present invention further relates to a method for the production of bioethanol and/or other bio-based compounds, comprising the expression of said nucleic acid molecules, preferably in said host cells. The present invention also relates to the use of the polypeptides, nucleic acids molecule or host cells for the production of bioethanol and/or other bio-based compounds, and/or for the recombinant fermentation of biomaterial containing pentose(s), preferably D-xylose and/or L-arabinose.