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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2004
Antonius Jeroen Adriaan Van Maris, Decatur, IL (US);
Jacobus Thomas Pronk, Schipluiden, NL;
Johannes Pieter Van Dijken, Leidschendam, NL;
Antonius Jeroen Adriaan van Maris, Decatur, IL (US);
Jacobus Thomas Pronk, Schipluiden, NL;
Johannes Pieter van Dijken, Leidschendam, NL;
Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas, Inc., Decatur, IL (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are glucose tolerant Ccarbon source-independent (GCSI) yeast strains having no detectable amount of pyruvate decarboxylase activity, wherein wild type yeast strains for the glucose tolerant Ccarbon source-independent yeast strains are Crabtree positive. Also disclosed are methods of selecting glucose tolerant Ccarbon source-dependent yeast strains, and methods of producing pyruvic acid or salts thereof using glucose tolerant Ccarbon source-independent yeast strain. Further disclosed herein are GCSI yeast strains having a genome that comprises an exogenous lactate dehydrogenase gene.