Biochemistry and physiology of rehydration and adaptation of active dry wine yeast for winemaking.
Alcoholic fermentation is a process mainly characterised by several factors that induce yeast stress response (low pH, high osmotic pressure, low nitrogen content, etc). Thus, stress response is essential to yeast in order to assure its survival, adaptation and growth, in both natural habitats and i...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2006 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/8659 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://www.tdx.cat/TDX-0704107-132239 http://hdl.handle.net/10803/8659 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | fermentació enologia metabolisme adaptació rehidratació llevat 663/664 |
| Sumario: | Alcoholic fermentation is a process mainly characterised by several factors that induce yeast stress response (low pH, high osmotic pressure, low nitrogen content, etc). Thus, stress response is essential to yeast in order to assure its survival, adaptation and growth, in both natural habitats and industrial conditions such as winemaking. One of the main features to optimise and improve alcoholic fermentation is the establishment of metabolic and physiological changes by the yeast just after must inoculation. In this early phase, yeast must quickly change its metabolism to achieve maximum advantage in the new growth medium. Oenological industry uses selected active dry wine yeast (ADWY) to inoculate the musts in order to get a better control over the fermentation process. Those dry yeasts have to be rehydrated before must inoculation. Therefore, yeast rehydration is the first step to ensure healthy cells and a good fermentation performance. The knowledge of the early yeast metabolic responses, from a biochemical and physiological point of view, were the main objectives of this thesis. The studied objectives were:<br/><br/> Analysis of trehalose and glycogen metabolism (reserve carbohydrates) in a commercial wine yeast strain, considering these carbohydrates markers of stress response. Study of their metabolism in winemaking conditions, taking into account the fermentation temperature (low 13ºC and control 25ºC), nitrogen content (low 60 mg/l, control 300 mg/l and high 1200 mg/l) and the ADWY rehydration and pre-adaptation.<br/><br/> Determination of early transcriptional responses of yeast just after must inoculation. It was considered the presence of glucose and fructose, the osmotic shock and the yeast metabolic activation, including the presence of the drug Cycloheximide, which is an inhibitor of protein synthesis.<br/><br/> Characterisation of the standard protocol of ADWY rehydration in an oenological context, which is rehydrate in warm water (37ºC) during 30 minutes.<br/><br/>Low fermentation temperatures affected fermentation kinetics, but not induced any additional stress response. In fact, high levels of trehalose were accumulated at control temperature than at 13ºC. In industrial conditions, after a period of pre-adaptation before inoculation, carbohydrates were completely depleted once yeasts were inoculated into the must. Their synthesis started simultaneously with a change in the phase of growth, from exponential to stationary, coinciding with nitrogen depletion. <br/>We also studied rehydration and characterised the early response to synthetic must but also to relevant conditions that ADWY must cope after inoculation (osmotic shock, presence of carbon sources). Glycogen content did not presented any change. However, trehalose was early mobilised in those media capable to ensure yeast growth. <br/>The effect of nitrogen availability upon trehalose metabolism was also studied. Neither glucose nor nitrogen exhaustion were involved in the regulation of trehalose metabolism. TPS1 (gene which codifies for trehalose-6-phosphate synthase) was induced just before trehalose accumulation, simultaneously with growth arrest. Microarray technique was used to determine whole gene expression after rehydration and in the same conditions previously studied. We can conclude that 30 minutes of rehydration in water is enough for the yeast to fully recover and that longer times in this medium are detrimental. The yeast transcriptional switch is the presence of fermentable sugars, and this is mostly related to ribosome and protein synthesis, glycolysis and ethanol synthesis. |
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