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ecBSU1: A Genome-scale Enzyme-constrained Model of Bacillus subtilis based on the ECMpy Workflow

Version 1 : Received: 17 November 2022 / Approved: 18 November 2022 / Online: 18 November 2022 (07:09:22 CET)

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Wu, K.; Mao, Z.; Mao, Y.; Niu, J.; Cai, J.; Yuan, Q.; Yun, L.; Liao, X.; Wang, Z.; Ma, H. ecBSU1: A Genome-Scale Enzyme-Constrained Model of Bacillus subtilis Based on the ECMpy Workflow. Microorganisms 2023, 11, 178. Wu, K.; Mao, Z.; Mao, Y.; Niu, J.; Cai, J.; Yuan, Q.; Yun, L.; Liao, X.; Wang, Z.; Ma, H. ecBSU1: A Genome-Scale Enzyme-Constrained Model of Bacillus subtilis Based on the ECMpy Workflow. Microorganisms 2023, 11, 178.

Abstract

Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) play an important role in the phenotype prediction of microorganisms, and their accuracy can be further improved by integrating other types of biological data such as enzyme concentrations and kinetic coefficients. Enzyme-constrained models (ecModels) have been constructed for several species and were successfully applied to increase the production of commodity chemicals. However, there was still no genome-scale ecModel for the important model organism Bacillus subtilis prior to this study. Here, we integrated enzyme kinetic and proteomic data to construct the first genome-scale ecModel of B. subtilis (ecBSU1) using the ECMpy workflow. We first used ecBSU1 to simulate overflow metabolism and explore the trade-off between biomass yield and enzyme usage efficiency. Then, we simulated the growth rate on eight previously published substrates and found that the simulation results of ecBSU1 were in good agreement with the literature. Finally, we identified target genes that enhance the yield of commodity chemicals using ecBSU1, most of which were consistent with the experimental data, and some of which may be potential novel targets for metabolic engineering. This work demonstrates that the integration of enzymatic constraints is an effective method to improve the performance of GEMs. The ecModel can predict overflow metabolism more precisely and can be used for the identification of target genes to guide the rational design of microbial cell factories.

Keywords

enzyme-constrained model; Bacillus subtilis; metabolic engineering

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology

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