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The Chemical Nature of Phenolic Compounds Determines Their Toxicity and Induces Distinct Physiological Responses in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae in Lignocellulose Hydrolysates

The Chemical Nature of Phenolic Compounds Determines Their Toxicity and Induces Distinct Physiological Responses in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae in Lignocellulose Hydrolysates

Peter Temitope Adeboye, Maurizio Bettiga, Lisbeth Olsson

AMB Express. 2014 May 29;4:46.

PMID: 24949277

Abstract:

We investigated the severity of the inhibitory effects of 13 phenolic compounds usually found in spruce hydrolysates (4-hydroxy-3-methoxycinnamaldehyde, homovanilyl alcohol, vanillin, syringic acid, vanillic acid, gallic acid, dihydroferulic acid, p-coumaric acid, hydroquinone, ferulic acid, homovanillic acid, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid and vanillylidenacetone). The effects of the selected compounds on cell growth, biomass yield and ethanol yield were studied and the toxic concentration threshold was defined for each compound. Using Ethanol Red, the popular industrial strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we found the most toxic compound to be 4-hydroxy-3-methoxycinnamaldehyde which inhibited growth at a concentration of 1.8 mM. We also observed that toxicity did not generally follow a trend based on the aldehyde, acid, ketone or alcohol classification of phenolic compounds, but rather that other structural properties such as additional functional groups attached to the compound may determine its toxicity. Three distinctive growth patterns that effectively clustered all the compounds involved in the screening into three categories. We suggest that the compounds have different cellular targets, and that. We suggest that the compounds have different cellular targets and inhibitory mechanisms in the cells, also compounds who share similar pattern on cell growth may have similar inhibitory effect and mechanisms of inhibition.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP1080122	Vanillylidenacetone		1080-12-2	Price

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