Strains of yeast genetically engineered to produce increased amounts of non-hydroxylated collagen or hydroxylated collagen are described. An all-in-one vector including the DNA necessary to produce collagen, promotors, and hydroxylating enzymes is also described. Methods for producing non-hydroxylated or hydroxylated collagen are also provided.

The invention belongs to the field of bioengineering and food technology, and discloses a method for enzymatic resolution of chiral substances, including the following steps: (1) preparing an enzyme solution with a lipase concentration of 1-3000 U/mL, and adding a soluble salt, a hydrophilic solvent and a hydrophobic solvent to the enzyme solution to form a three-liquid phase system; the hydrophobic solvent contains esters or amide compounds composed of racemic chiral compounds; (2) subjecting the three-liquid phase system to enzyme-catalyzed reaction under stirring condition; after the reaction is completed, standing or centrifuging the three-liquid phase system to divide it into three layers, which are a upper liquid layer, a middle liquid layer and a lower liquid layer from top to bottom. The optically pure chiral product after hydrolysis is mainly rich in the middle liquid layer or the lower liquid layer, while the upper liquid layer product is another ester or amide product containing an optically pure chiral product. The method has the advantages of low energy consumption, high raw material utilization rate, and mild reaction conditions, and solves the problems of low chiral resolution efficiency, poor chiral selectivity, low recovery rate, and difficulty in industrialization in the existing enzymatic method.

The present invention relates to a synthetic promoter capable of controlling the expression of a target gene at various locations in the genome of an acid-resistant strain, and more particularly to a synthetic promoter including a core promoter derived from an acid-resistant strain and an upstream activating sequence (UAS) element serving as an enhancer. When the present invention is applied to a variety of genetic and metabolic engineering techniques for acid-resistant yeast, various metabolic networks can be configured as desired while controlling the expression level of the target gene, so a method of producing various metabolites using acid-resistant yeast is provided, and the cost of producing the metabolites can be greatly reduced depending on the properties of the acid-resistant yeast.

Hydroxycarboxylic acids may be biosynthesized from a carbonaceous feedstock and then isolated through forming and subsequently hydrolyzing an intermediate sophorolipid. After biosynthesizing a hydroxycarboxylic acid in a cell culture medium or otherwise providing a hydroxycarboxylic acid in a first aqueous medium, the hydroxycarboxylic acid and glucose may be converted into at least one sophorolipid by a suitable microorganism or an enzyme cocktail. The at least one sophorolipid may be then be separated from the cell culture medium or first aqueous medium and then hydrolyzed in a second aqueous medium to form the hydroxycarboxylic acid and glucose as free components separate from the cell culture medium or first aqueous medium. The hydroxycarboxylic acid is present as a phase separate from the second aqueous medium and the glucose remains in the second aqueous medium.

The present invention relates to genetically engineered yeasts having a heterologous trehalase gene and fermentation processes for using such yeasts. The yeasts can express trehalase in a quantity sufficient to convert significant amounts of trehalose to glucose, thereby improving the yield of the product in a fermentation, and/or reducing or eliminating the need to add exogenous trehalase to the fermentation. The yeasts can also include other heterologous genes for expressing enzymes useful for improving yield and/or for reducing or eliminating the need to add exogenous enzymes to the fermentation.

Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a monoclonal antibody without using animal individuals. This method includes a step of introducing a DNA fragment comprising a gene that encodes a secretory signal, a gene that encodes a nanobody, and a gene that encodes a peptide barcode, or a vector containing the DNA fragment, into a yeast cell; and a step of collecting a polypeptide comprising the nanobody and the peptide barcode that has been expressed in the cell and secreted to the outside of the cell. According to the method, it is possible to manufacture a monoclonal nanobody more efficiently in a shorter period of time without using animal individuals.

The microorganism preparation feeding method of the invention employs an automatic microorganism preparation feeding apparatus which includes a cold storage apparatus for refrigeration-storing a seed microorganism belonging to the aerobic microorganism group including at least one species of aerobic microorganisms capable of decomposing oil and fat contained in oil/fat-including wastewater and a growth tank for growing the seed microorganism so as to produce the microorganism preparation, wherein the seed microorganism belonging to the aerobic microorganism group is maintained in a live state by means of the cold storage apparatus, the seed microorganism is periodically grown by means of the growth tank so as to produce a predetermined microorganism preparation, and the produced predetermined microorganism preparation is fed to the oil/fat-including wastewater. The method includes refrigeration-storing, as the seed microorganism, a microorganism whose population density is 1×10.sup.7 CFU/mL to 5×10.sup.9 CFU/mL in the cold storage apparatus; growing, as a source material, the seed microorganism of a predetermined volume by means of the growth tank so as to produce the predetermined microorganism preparation whose volume is 50 to 500 times the predetermined volume of the seed microorganism and whose population density is 1×10.sup.7 CFU/mL to 2×10.sup.10 CFU/mL; and feeding the produced microorganism preparation to the oil/fat-including wastewater.

The present invention relates to the fields of genetic engineering and fermentation engineering, and provides a Candida utilis double gene co-expression strain for hydrolyzing protein components in kitchen waste, in which the Candida utilis double gene co-expression strain is constructed by integrating carboxypeptidases and endoprotease genes through a Candida utilis expression vector onto a Candida utilis genome. The present invention further provides a Candida utilis double gene co-expression strain capable of degrading kitchen waste, specifically degrading the protein components in the kitchen waste, and decomposing and transforming the proteins into small peptides and amino acids.

This disclosure describes methods to separate solids from liquids in a production facility. A process separates components in the process stream by applying non-condensable media to create density differences and then using a mechanical device to separate the solids from the liquids based on the density difference. The process produces the liquids and solids, which may be further processed to create valuable animal feed products.

A method for producing cis-unsaturated fatty acid includes the operations below. (i) An oil-water mixture is provided, wherein the oil-water mixture includes 1 to 10 parts by weight of oil and 1 part by weight of water. (ii) 0.002 to 0.5 parts by weight of a recombinant Candida rugosa lipase 1 (rCRL1) is added into the oil-water mixture. (iii) The oil-water mixture is emulsified. (iv) The emulsified oil-water mixture is hydrolyzed and fatty acid is generated. (v) Oil-water is separated at a temperature of 55° C. to 65° C. and an oil phase layer is extracted. (vi) The cooling and filtering step is performed to obtain cis-unsaturated fatty acid.