Abstract:
:Metabolic engineering requires multiple rounds of strain construction to evaluate alternative pathways and enzyme concentrations. Optimizing multigene pathways stepwise or by randomly selecting enzymes and expression levels is inefficient. Here, we apply methods from design of experiments (DOE) to guide the construction of strain libraries from which the maximum information can be extracted without sampling every possible combination. We use Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a host for a novel six-gene pathway to itaconic acid, selected by comparing alternative shunt pathways that bypass the mitochondrial TCA cycle. The pathway is distinctive for the use of acetylating acetaldehyde dehydrogenase to increase cytosolic acetyl-CoA pools, a bacterial enzyme to synthesize citrate in the cytosol, and an itaconic acid exporter. Precise control over the expression of each gene is enabled by a set of promoter-terminator pairs that span a 174-fold range. Two large combinatorial libraries (160 variants, 2.4 Mb and 32 variants, 0.6 Mb) are designed where the expression levels are selected by statistical methods (I-optimal response surface methodology, full factorial, or Plackett-Burman) with the intent of extracting different types of guiding information after the screen. This is applied to the design of a third library (24 variants, 0.5 Mb) intended to alleviate a bottleneck in cis-aconitate decarboxylase (CAD) expression. The top strain produces 815 mg/l itaconic acid, a 4-fold improvement over the initial strain achieved by iteratively balancing pathway expression. Including a methylated product in the total, the strain produces 1.3 g/l combined itaconic acids. Further, a regression analysis of the libraries reveals the optimal expression level of CAD as well as pairwise interdependencies between genes that result in increased titer and purity of itaconic acid. This work demonstrates adapting algorithmic design strategies to guide automated yeast strain construction and learn information after each iteration.
journal_name
Metab Engjournal_title
Metabolic engineeringauthors
Young EM,Zhao Z,Gielesen BEM,Wu L,Benjamin Gordon D,Roubos JA,Voigt CAdoi
10.1016/j.ymben.2018.05.002subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-07-01 00:00:00pages
33-43eissn
1096-7176issn
1096-7184pii
S1096-7176(18)30118-6journal_volume
48pub_type
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