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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Gorter de Vries, A.R. (author), Knibbe, E. (author), van Roosmalen, Roderick (author), van den Broek, M.A. (author), de la Torre, P. (author), O’Herne, Stephanie F. (author), Vijverberg, Pascal A. (author), el Masoudi, Anissa (author), Brouwers, N. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author), Daran, J.G. (author)The lager-brewing yeast Saccharomyces pastorianus is a hybrid between S. cerevisiae and S. eubayanus with an exceptional degree of aneuploidy. While chromosome copy number variation (CCNV) is present in many industrial Saccharomyces strains and has been linked to various industrially-relevant traits, its impact on the brewing performance of S...journal article 2020
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Wiersma, S.J. (author), Mooiman, C. (author), Giera, Martin (author), Pronk, J.T. (author)Biosynthesis of sterols, which are considered essential components of virtually all eukaryotic membranes, requires molecular oxygen. Anaerobic growth of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae therefore strictly depends on sterol supplementation of synthetic growth media. Neocallimastigomycota are a group of strictly anaerobic fungi which, instead...journal article 2020
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de Graaff, D.R. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Pronk, M. (author)Many sources of wastewater contain sulfides, which can cause excessive growth of filamentous bacteria such as Thiothrix sp. resulting in bulking sludge in conventional activated sludge systems. Granular sludge systems could potentially also suffer from the growth of filamentous bacteria. Uptake of easily degradable COD by the relatively slow...journal article 2020
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Wronska, A.K. (author), Haak, Meinske P. (author), Geraats, Ellen (author), Bruins Slot, Eva (author), van den Broek, M.A. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author), Daran, J.G. (author)Biotin, an important cofactor for carboxylases, is essential for all kingdoms of life. Since native biotin synthesis does not always suffice for fast growth and product formation, microbial cultivation in research and industry often requires supplementation of biotin. De novo biotin biosynthesis in yeasts is not fully understood, which...journal article 2020
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Perli, T. (author), Moonen, Dewi P.I. (author), van den Broek, M.A. (author), Pronk, J.T. (author), Daran, J.G. (author)Quantitative physiological studies on Saccharomyces cerevisiae commonly use synthetic media (SM) that contain a set of water-soluble growth factors that, based on their roles in human nutrition, are referred to as B vitamins. Previous work demonstrated that in S. cerevisiae CEN. PK113-7D, requirements for biotin were eliminated by laboratory...journal article 2020
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Feng, Cuijie (author), Welles, L. (author), Zhang, X. (author), Pronk, M. (author), de Graaff, D.R. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author)Phosphorus has been successfully eliminated from wastewater by biological techniques of enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) process, which relies on a specific microbiota of polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) that accumulate phosphate as polyphosphates (poly-P). Most methods for quantification of poly-P pools suffer from...journal article 2020
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Barrios Hernandez, M.L. (author), Pronk, M. (author), Garcia, H. (author), Boersma, Arne (author), Brdjanovic, Damir (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Hooijmans, Christine M. (author)The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the novel aerobic granular sludge (AGS) wastewater treatment technology in removing faecal indicator organisms (FIOs) compared to the conventional activated sludge (CAS) treatment system. The work was carried out at two full-scale wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) in the Netherlands,...journal article 2020
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de Graaff, D.R. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Pronk, M. (author)Seawater can be introduced or intrude in sewer systems and can thereby negatively influence biological wastewater treatment processes. Here we studied the impact of artificial seawater on the enhanced biological phosphate removal (EBPR) process performance by aerobic granular sludge (AGS) with synthetic wastewater. Process performance,...journal article 2020