A novel isolated Pichia stipitis strain is provided. The strain is capable of fermenting at least a pentose sugar in the presence of one or more inhibitory substances to produce ethanol. A method of utilizing the strain to produce ethanol is also provided.

The present invention is directed to compositions comprising hydrolase-secreting bacteria and fermenting microorganisms and use thereof, such as for fermentative production of ethanol.

A novel method of growing fungi is disclosed which uses an engineered artificial media and produces high density filamentous fungi biomats that can be harvested with a minimum of processing and from which fungal products such as antibiotics, proteins, and lipids can be isolated, the method resulting in lowered fungus cultivation costs for energy usage, oxygenation, water usage and waste stream production.

Provided herein are compositions with enhanced protein content, protein compositions with improved functionality, and methods for the preparation thereof.

The present disclosure discloses a Pichia kudriavzevii and a multifunctional complex microbial inoculant and use thereof, and belongs to the technical field of bioengineering. The Pichia kudriavzevii of the present disclosure has a degrading ability of lactic acid as high as 12.69 g.Math.L.sup.1, which is 2.04 times that of a type strain. At the same time, the strain can also metabolize ethanol and has an OD.sub.600 of 4.48 after fermentation in a sorghum juice medium at 30 C. and 200 rpm for 3 d. The Pichia kudriavzevii could completely consume 58 g.Math.L.sup.1 of glucose in the sorghum juice medium after 60 h of fermentation and produce 13.06 g.Math.L.sup.1 of ethanol. The Pichia kudriavzevii degrades lactic acid and can relieve a lactic acid pressure of a fermentation system and enable Saccharomyces cerevisiae to grow and metabolize to produce wine. In addition, the strain and the microbial inoculant thereof can inhibit the production of filamentous fungi and geosmin and have important use prospects for maintaining homeostasis of a fermentation system and food preservation.

Provided is a method for the high expression of a recombinant human serum albumin, characterized in comprising the step of co-expressing: (a) a human serum albumin gene, and (b) one or more rHSA expression promoting factor genes in a yeast host cell.

A preparation method of an ionic rare earth leaching agent includes the following steps: (1) domestication microorganisms with rare earth activated mineral powder culture medium to obtain a microbial suspension; (2) amplifying and culturing the microbial suspension and additives to obtain the amplified culture medium; and (3) mixing the modified sesbania gum with the amplified culture medium to obtain the ionic rare earth leaching agent. The activated mineral powder is the active metal-containing mineral powder in nature, which has excellent cation exchange function after activation, and the activated mineral powder and ionic rare earth mineral powder are used as the medium components to domesticate microorganisms, so that microorganisms can survive in the above-mentioned ionic solution and improve the leaching rate of synergistic leaching ionic rare earth.

A method for producing a cannabinoid by contacting cannabigerolic acid with a cannabinoid synthase orthologue. The cannabinoid synthase orthologue is from an organism other than Cannabis sativa. Also disclosed is a recombinant cell of Saccharomyces cerevisiae or Pichia pastoris that includes in its genome a nucleic acid encoding the above cannabinoid synthase orthologue. The cannabinoid synthase orthologue is expressed in the recombinant cell in an active form.