Journal
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
Volume 113, Issue 3, Pages 651-660Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bit.25830
Keywords
strain design; transcriptomics; genome-scale model of metabolism; metabolic engineering; Streptomyces coelicolor; antibiotics
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning [NRF-2013R1A2A2A01069197]
- National Research Foundation of Singapore [NRF2013-THE001-035]
- NRF [NRF-2012H1A2A1001956]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2012H1A2A1001956] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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In silico model-driven analysis using genome-scale model of metabolism (GEM) has been recognized as a promising method for microbial strain improvement. However, most of the current GEM-based strain design algorithms based on flux balance analysis (FBA) heavily rely on the steady-state and optimality assumptions without considering any regulatory information. Thus, their practical usage is quite limited, especially in its application to secondary metabolites overproduction. In this study, we developed a transcriptomics-based strain optimization tool (tSOT) in order to overcome such limitations by integrating transcriptomic data into GEM. Initially, we evaluated existing algorithms for integrating transcriptomic data into GEM using Streptomyces coelicolor dataset, and identified iMAT algorithm as the only and the best algorithm for characterizing the secondary metabolism of S. coelicolor. Subsequently, we developed tSOT platform where iMAT is adopted to predict the reaction states, and successfully demonstrated its applicability to secondary metabolites overproduction by designing actinorhodin (ACT), a polyketide antibiotic, overproducing strain of S. coelicolor. Mutants overexpressing tSOT targets such as ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase and NADP-dependent malic enzyme showed 2 and 1.8-fold increase in ACT production, thereby validating the tSOT prediction. It is expected that tSOT can be used for solving other metabolic engineering problems which could not be addressed by current strain design algorithms, especially for the secondary metabolite overproductions. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2016;113: 651-660. (c) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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