Extensive genetic modifications have been made to improve the performance of the bioreactor systems. Although metabolic engineering has been paid much attention with some success in practice, the pathway modifications based on the specific genes knockouts and/or amplifications by plasmids do not necessarily lead to the significant improvement in the cell growth and/or the specific metabolite production without profound insight into the metabolic regulation. Although much information is available on genetic regulation, biochemistry, and physiology of cellular metabolism, we are still far from understanding its overall regulation mechanism. It is strongly desired that different levels of (omics) information be integrated by comparison of the data for different mutants and/or the data obtained at different culture environments with the aid of systems biology approach. Among the different levels of information, the metabolic flux distribution is located on top of them, and it is quite important for understanding the whole cell metabolism in practice. We have, so far, established the 13C-metabolic flux analysis method for the continuous culture using NMR, GC-MS, and/further extended to the batch culture using CETOF/ MS. It was found that the cell metabolism significantly changes with respect to time for specific gene knockout mutants as well as the wild type based on 13C-metabolic flux analysis. We have also attempted to compare the flux data with other levels of information. We have also investigated the effects of different carbon sources, nitrogen levels, phosphate levels, temperature, and pH on the cell metabolism in view of global regulators and metabolic pathway genes. Moreover, we are now developing a model which can simulate the metabolic changes due to specific gene knockout. The goal of our research is to understand the whole cell metabolism, and to realize its mechanism into the computer for the systematic cell design of E.coli for the production of next generation bioenergy.
저자
Kazuyuki Shimizu [ Department of Bioscience & Bioinformatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University ]
한국생물공학회 [The Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering]
설립연도
1984
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공학>생물공학
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