Advances in Yeast Engineering and Stress Responses
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 618
Special Issue Editors
Interests: protein phosphorylation; stress signaling; gene expression; transcriptomics; heterologous protein expression; S. cerevisiae; K. phafii
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Interests: industrial biotechnology; synthetic biology; metabolic engineering; bioprocess engineering; recombinant protein production; metabolite production; yeast; K. phaffii
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microorganisms such as yeasts and filamentous fungi are exposed to changing environmental conditions (temperature, osmotic pressure, pH, chemicals, etc.). Moreover, they are often required to perform under harsh/non-optimal physiological conditions for the efficient industrial production of value-added products. To cope with these stress situations, they have developed adaptive responses that often involve extensive remodeling of gene expression, as well as metabolic and morphological alterations. Understanding how stress signals are sensed and deciphering the key molecular pathways leading to these responses provide fundamental knowledge for engineering stress-resistant yeast strains to improve industrial bioproduction processes.
This Special Issue aims to combine current approaches to elucidating the molecular basis of the stress response in yeast with strategies that take advantage of this knowledge in order to generate more robust, efficient and productive strains and design optimized fermentation processes that minimize or exploit these stress responses. This combined knowledge will make it possible to achieve cheaper and more efficient and sustainable industrial processes.
Dr. Joaquin Ariño
Dr. Pau Ferrer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- stress tolerance
- cellular adaptation
- nutrient limitation
- gene expression
- metabolic engineering
- synthetic biology
- strain robustness
- fermentation efficiency
- bioprocess optimization
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