RobOKoD: microbial strain design for (over)production of target compounds

Abstract:

Sustainable production of target compounds such as biofuels and high-value chemicals for pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and chemical industries is becoming an increasing priority given their current dependency upon diminishing petrochemical resources. Designing these strains is difficult, with current methods focusing primarily on knocking-out genes, dismissing other vital steps of strain design including the overexpression and dampening of genes. The design predictions from current methods also do not translate well-into successful strains in the laboratory. Here, we introduce RobOKoD (Robust, Overexpression, Knockout and Dampening), a method for predicting strain designs for overproduction of targets. The method uses flux variability analysis to profile each reaction within the system under differing production percentages of target-compound and biomass. Using these profiles, reactions are identified as potential knockout, overexpression, or dampening targets. The identified reactions are ranked according to their suitability, providing flexibility in strain design for users. The software was tested by designing a butanol-producing Escherichia coli strain, and was compared against the popular OptKnock and RobustKnock methods. RobOKoD shows favorable design predictions, when predictions from these methods are compared to a successful butanol-producing experimentally-validated strain. Overall RobOKoD provides users with rankings of predicted beneficial genetic interventions with which to support optimized strain design.

SEEK ID: https://fairdomhub.org/publications/236

PubMed ID: 25853130

Projects: Manchester Institute for Biotechnology

Publication type: Not specified

Journal: Front Cell Dev Biol

Citation: Front Cell Dev Biol. 2015 Mar 24;3:17. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2015.00017. eCollection 2015.

Date Published: 24th Mar 2015

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Authors: N. J. Stanford, P. Millard, N. Swainston

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