Improvement of fermentative yeasts <i>S. cerevisiae</i> by Non-GMO strategies for the reduction of urethanes in Sherry wines

  1. Cantoral, Jesús Manuel 1
  2. Ruiz-Muñoz, Marina 1
  3. Martínez-Verdugo, Sergio 2
  4. Pérez, Fernando 3
  5. Fernández, María Hernández 1
  6. Cordero-Bueso, Gustavo 1
  1. 1 Departamento de Biomedicina, Biotecnología y Salud Pública. Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, Cádiz, España
  2. 2 Emilio Lustau S.A., Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, España
  3. 3 Luis Caballero S.A., El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, España
Proceedings:
43rd World Congress of Vine and Wine

Publisher: EDP Sciences

ISSN: 2117-4458

Year of publication: 2023

Volume: 56

Pages: 02028

Type: Conference paper

DOI: 10.1051/BIOCONF/20235602028 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

Abstract

During alcoholic fermentation, the yeasts responsible for the process produce various metabolites, including urea. The reaction of urea with ethanol spontaneously generates ethyl carbamate in wine, a carcinogenic metabolite whose concentration needs to be regulated. Yeasts produce urea during the arginine metabolic pathway. For this purpose, adaptive evolution has been used by using a toxic analogue of l-arginine, l-canavanine, for selective pressure, once increasing the genetic variability of the population by sporulation and subsequent conjugation. Using this strategy, five putative variants of the parental yeast have been obtained and seem to have reduced urea production, thus being able to achieve a lower concentration of ethyl carbamate.

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