Search Results - "Verstrepen, Kevin"
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Bioflavoring by non-conventional yeasts in sequential beer fermentations
Published in Food microbiology (01-06-2018)“…Non-conventional yeast species have great capacity for producing diverse flavor profiles in production of alcoholic beverages, but their potential for beer…”
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Taming wild yeast: potential of conventional and nonconventional yeasts in industrial fermentations
Published in Annual review of microbiology (01-01-2014)“…Yeasts are the main driving force behind several industrial food fermentation processes, including the production of beer, wine, sake, bread, and chocolate…”
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Domestication of Industrial Microbes
Published in Current biology (20-05-2019)“…Domestication refers to artificial selection and breeding of wild species to obtain cultivated variants that thrive in man-made niches and meet human or…”
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Domestication and Divergence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Beer Yeasts
Published in Cell (08-09-2016)“…Whereas domestication of livestock, pets, and crops is well documented, it is still unclear to what extent microbes associated with the production of food have…”
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Physiology, ecology and industrial applications of aroma formation in yeast
Published in FEMS microbiology reviews (01-08-2017)“…Abstract Yeast cells are often employed in industrial fermentation processes for their ability to efficiently convert relatively high concentrations of sugars…”
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Non-Conventional Yeast Strains Increase the Aroma Complexity of Bread
Published in PloS one (24-10-2016)“…Saccharomyces cerevisiae is routinely used yeast in food fermentations because it combines several key traits, including fermentation efficiency and production…”
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Interspecific hybridization as a driver of fungal evolution and adaptation
Published in Nature reviews. Microbiology (01-08-2021)“…Cross-species gene transfer is often associated with bacteria, which have evolved several mechanisms that facilitate horizontal DNA exchange. However, the…”
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Improving industrial yeast strains: exploiting natural and artificial diversity
Published in FEMS microbiology reviews (01-09-2014)“…Abstract Yeasts have been used for thousands of years to make fermented foods and beverages, such as beer, wine, sake, and bread. However, the choice for a…”
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Metabolism: How a eukaryote adapted to life without respiration
Published in Current biology (05-06-2023)“…A new study finds that Schizosaccharomyces japonicus, a eukaryote that lost the ability to respire, modified its central carbon metabolism to maintain…”
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Reconstruction of ancestral metabolic enzymes reveals molecular mechanisms underlying evolutionary innovation through gene duplication
Published in PLoS biology (01-12-2012)“…Gene duplications are believed to facilitate evolutionary innovation. However, the mechanisms shaping the fate of duplicated genes remain heavily debated…”
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Metabolic engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica for terpenoids production: advances and perspectives
Published in Critical reviews in biotechnology (01-06-2022)“…Terpenoids are a large family of natural products with diversified structures and functions that are widely used in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and…”
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Different levels of catabolite repression optimize growth in stable and variable environments
Published in PLoS biology (01-01-2014)“…Organisms respond to environmental changes by adapting the expression of key genes. However, such transcriptional reprogramming requires time and energy, and…”
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Noise and Epigenetic Inheritance of Single-Cell Division Times Influence Population Fitness
Published in Current biology (09-05-2016)“…The fitness effect of biological noise remains unclear. For example, even within clonal microbial populations, individual cells grow at different speeds…”
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Adaptation to High Ethanol Reveals Complex Evolutionary Pathways
Published in PLoS genetics (01-11-2015)“…Tolerance to high levels of ethanol is an ecologically and industrially relevant phenotype of microbes, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this complex…”
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Origins, evolution, domestication and diversity of Saccharomyces beer yeasts
Published in Current opinion in biotechnology (01-02-2018)“…[Display omitted] •Traditional beer brewing provided the perfect setting for microbial domestication.•Saccharomyces beer yeasts have been domesticated on…”
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Large-scale selection and breeding to generate industrial yeasts with superior aroma production
Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (01-11-2014)“…The concentrations and relative ratios of various aroma compounds produced by fermenting yeast cells are essential for the sensory quality of many fermented…”
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Glycerol production by fermenting yeast cells is essential for optimal bread dough fermentation
Published in PloS one (12-03-2015)“…Glycerol is the main compatible solute in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. When faced with osmotic stress, for example during semi-solid state bread dough…”
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How do regulatory networks evolve and expand throughout evolution?
Published in Current opinion in biotechnology (01-08-2015)“…Graphical abstract…”
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Gene Loss Predictably Drives Evolutionary Adaptation
Published in Molecular biology and evolution (01-10-2020)“…Abstract Loss of gene function is common throughout evolution, even though it often leads to reduced fitness. In this study, we systematically evaluated how an…”
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Variable tandem repeats accelerate evolution of coding and regulatory sequences
Published in Annual review of genetics (01-12-2010)“…Genotype-to-phenotype mapping commonly focuses on two major classes of mutations: single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and copy number variation (CNV). Here,…”
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