- document
-
Bouwknegt, J. (author), Koster, C.C. (author), Vos, A.M. (author), Ortiz Merino, R.A. (author), Wassink, Mats (author), Luttik, M.A.H. (author), van den Broek, M.A. (author), Hagedoorn, P.L. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author)Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported errors in the text of the Results section and in Table 2. It refers to a mutation in a yeast gene as VPS1<sup>I410L</sup> and to the corresponding change in the Vps1 amino-acid sequence as I410L. The correct descriptions should read VPS1<sup>I401L</sup> and I401L,...journal article 2021
- document
-
Pronk, J. B. (author), Bolch, T. (author), King, O. (author), Wouters, B. (author), Benn, D. I. (author)Meltwater from Himalayan glaciers sustains the flow of rivers such as the Ganges and Brahmaputra on which over half a billion people depend for day-to-day needs. Upstream areas are likely to be affected substantially by climate change, and changes in the magnitude and timing of meltwater supply are expected to occur in coming decades. About 10 %...journal article 2021
- document
-
Mooiman, C. (author), Bouwknegt, J. (author), Dekker, W.J.C. (author), Wiersma, S.J. (author), Ortiz Merino, R.A. (author), de Hulster, A.F. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author)All known facultatively fermentative yeasts require molecular oxygen for growth. Only in a small number of yeast species, these requirements can be circumvented by supplementation of known anaerobic growth factors such as nicotinate, sterols and unsaturated fatty acids. Biosynthetic oxygen requirements of yeasts are typically small and,...journal article 2021
- document
-
Perli, T. (author), Vos, A.M. (author), Bouwknegt, J. (author), Dekker, W.J.C. (author), Wiersma, S.J. (author), Mooiman, C. (author), Ortiz Merino, R.A. (author), Daran, J.G. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author)Neocallimastigomycetes are unique examples of strictly anaerobic eukaryotes. This study investigates how these anaerobic fungi bypass reactions involved in synthesis of pyridine nucleotide cofactors and coenzyme A that, in canonical fungal pathways, require molecular oxygen. Analysis of Neocallimastigomycetes proteomes identified a candidate...journal article 2021
- document
-
Else-Hassing, J. (author), Buijs, Joran (author), Blankerts, Nikki (author), Luttik, M.A.H. (author), de Hulster, A.F. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author), Daran, J.G. (author)Engineered strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae are intensively studied as production platforms for aromatic compounds such as hydroxycinnamic acids, stilbenoids and flavonoids. Heterologous pathways for production of these compounds use L-phenylalanine and/or L-tyrosine, generated by the yeast shikimate pathway, as aromatic...journal article 2021
- document
-
Bouwknegt, J. (author), Wiersma, S.J. (author), Ortiz Merino, R.A. (author), Doornenbal, E.S.R. (author), Buitenhuis, Petrik (author), Giera, Martin (author), Müller, Christoph (author), Pronk, J.T. (author)Biosynthesis of sterols, which are key constituents of canonical eukaryotic membranes, requiresmolecular oxygen. Anaerobic protists and deep-branching anaerobic fungi are the only eukaryotes in which a mechanism for sterol-independent growth has been elucidated. In these organisms, tetrahymanol, formed through oxygen-independent cyclization...journal article 2021
- document
-
Toja Ortega, S. (author), Pronk, M. (author), de Kreuk, M.K. (author)Complex substrates, like proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids, are major components of domestic wastewater, and yet their degradation in biofilm-based wastewater treatment technologies, such as aerobic granular sludge (AGS), is not well understood. Hydrolysis is considered the rate-limiting step in the bioconversion of complex substrates, and as...journal article 2021
- document
-
Wronska, A.K. (author), van den Broek, M.A. (author), Perli, T. (author), de Hulster, A.F. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author), Daran, J.G. (author)An oxygen requirement for de novo biotin synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae precludes the application of biotin-prototrophic strains in anoxic processes that use biotin-free media. To overcome this issue, this study explores introduction of the oxygen-independent Escherichia coli biotin-biosynthesis pathway in S. cerevisiae. Implementation...journal article 2021
- document
-
Dekker, W.J.C. (author), Ortiz Merino, R.A. (author), Kaljouw, Astrid (author), Battjes, Julius (author), Wiering, Frank W. (author), Mooiman, C. (author), de la Torre, P. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author)Current large-scale, anaerobic industrial processes for ethanol production from renewable carbohydrates predominantly rely on the mesophilic yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Use of thermotolerant, facultatively fermentative yeasts such as Kluyveromyces marxianus could confer significant economic benefits. However, in contrast to S. cerevisiae,...journal article 2021
- document
-
Toja Ortega, S. (author), Pronk, M. (author), de Kreuk, M.K. (author)High concentrations of particulate COD (pCOD) in the influent of aerobic granular sludge (AGS) systems are often associated to small granule diameter and a large fraction of flocculent sludge. At high particulate concentrations even granule stability and process performance might be compromised. However, pilot-or full-scale studies focusing...journal article 2021
- document
-
Bouwknegt, J. (author), Koster, C.C. (author), Vos, A.M. (author), Ortiz Merino, R.A. (author), Wassink, Mats (author), Luttik, M.A.H. (author), van den Broek, M.A. (author), Hagedoorn, P.L. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author)Background: In most fungi, quinone-dependent Class-II dihydroorotate dehydrogenases (DHODs) are essential for pyrimidine biosynthesis. Coupling of these Class-II DHODHs to mitochondrial respiration makes their in vivo activity dependent on oxygen availability. Saccharomyces cerevisiae and closely related yeast species harbor a cytosolic Class...journal article 2021
- document
-
Liu, Y. (author), Esen, Osman (author), Pronk, J.T. (author), van Gulik, W.M. (author)This study explores the relation between biomass-specific succinic acid (SA) production rate and specific growth rate of an engineered industrial strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with the aim to investigate the extent to which growth and product formation can be uncoupled. Ammonium-limited aerobic chemostat and retentostat cultures were...journal article 2021
- document
-
van Dijk, E.J.H. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Pronk, M. (author)The nitrous oxides emission was measured over 7 months in the full-scale aerobic granular sludge plant in Dinxperlo, the Netherlands. Nitrous oxide concentrations were measured in the bulk liquid and the off-gas of the Nereda® reactor. Combined with the batch wise operation of the reactor, this gave a high information density and a better...journal article 2021
- document
-
Perli, T. (author), van der Vorm, Daan N.A. (author), Wassink, Mats (author), van den Broek, M.A. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author), Daran, J.G. (author)Metabolic capabilities of cells are not only defined by their repertoire of enzymes and metabolites, but also by availability of enzyme cofactors. The molybdenum cofactor (Moco) is widespread among eukaryotes but absent from the industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. No less than 50 Moco-dependent enzymes covering over 30 catalytic...journal article 2021
- document
-
Pereira Espíndola, S. (author), Pronk, M. (author), Zlopasa, J. (author), Picken, S.J. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author)Wastewater solids could be an attractive source of secondary raw cellulose, mainly originating from toilet paper. Cellulose can be recovered through sieving of raw wastewater, return sludge, or excess sludge. In particular, a large fraction of cellulose (13–15%) can be found in the excess sludge of the aerobic granular sludge produced by the...journal article 2021
- document
-
Pronk, Erik (author)Urban areas are seeing influx of population and therefore are experiencing increasing stress on the systems currently in place. In traffic networks, a larger population means that their are inevitably a short term increase in mobility demands. To accommodate this, governments and and the private sector are proposing new solutions for mobility....master thesis 2020
- document
-
Haaksman, V.A. (author), Mirghorayshi, M. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Pronk, M. (author)Operational disturbances in aerobic granular sludge (AGS) systems can result in aerobic availability of readily biodegradable COD (rbCOD). Different from activated sludge, morphological consequences on the short and long term are not well described in literature. This study investigated the effect of incomplete anaerobic uptake of acetate on...journal article 2020
- document
-
Perli, T. (author), Wronska, A.K. (author), Ortiz Merino, R.A. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author), Daran, J.G. (author)Chemically defined media for yeast cultivation (CDMY) were developed to support fast growth, experimental reproducibility, and quantitative analysis of growth rates and biomass yields. In addition to mineral salts and a carbon substrate, popular CDMYs contain seven to nine B-group vitamins, which are either enzyme cofactors or precursors for...journal article 2020
- document
-
Valk, L.C. (author), Diender, Martijn (author), Stouten, G.R. (author), Petersen, Jette F. (author), Nielsen, Per H. (author), Dueholm, Morten S. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author)Acetogens have the ability to fixate carbon during fermentation by employing the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (WLP), which is highly conserved across Bacteria and Archaea. In a previous study, product stoichometries in galacturonate-limited, anaerobic enrichment cultures of “Candidatus Galacturonibacter soehngenii,” from a novel genus within the...journal article 2020
- document
-
Valk, L.C. (author), Luttik, M.A.H. (author), de Ram, C. (author), Pabst, Martin (author), van den Broek, M.A. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author)D-galacturonate, a key constituent of pectin, is a ubiquitous monomer in plant biomass. Anaerobic, fermentative conversion of D-galacturonate is therefore relevant in natural environments as well as in microbial processes for microbial conversion of pectin-containing agricultural residues. In currently known microorganisms that anaerobically...journal article 2020