UW-Madison Dept of Bacteriology
Thomas W. Jeffries
Professor of Bacteriology
14 Forest Products Laboratory
1 Gifford Pinchot Drive
(608) 231-9453
twjeffri@wisc.edu
Select Publications
- Rodrigues RC, Lu C, Lin B, Jeffries TW. Fermentation kinetics for xylitol production by a Pichia stipitis D-xylulokinase mutant previously grown in spent sulfite liquor. Appl Biochem Biotechnol. 2008 148:199-209.
- Van Vleet JH, Jeffries TW, Olsson L. Deleting the para-nitrophenyl phosphatase (pNPPase), PHO13, in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae improves growth and ethanol production on d-xylose. Metab Eng. 2008 In Press.
- Ni H, Laplaza JM, Jeffries TW. Transposon mutagenesis to improve the growth of recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae on D-xylose. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2007 73:2061-6.
- Jeffries TW, Grigoriev IV, Grimwood J, Laplaza JM, Aerts A, Salamov A, Schmutz J, Lindquist E, Dehal P, Shapiro H, Jin YS, Passoth V, Richardson PM. Genome sequence of the lignocellulose-bioconverting and xylose-fermenting yeast Pichia stipitis. Nat Biotechnol. 2007 25:319-26.
- Jeffries TW. Engineering yeasts for xylose metabolism. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2006 17:320-6.
- Jeffries TW. Ethanol fermentation on the move. Nat Biotechnol. 2005 23:40-1.
- Jin YS, Laplaza JM, Jeffries TW. Saccharomyces cerevisiae engineered for xylose metabolism exhibits a respiratory response. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2004 70:6816-25.