title: Reconstruction of a high-quality metabolic model enables the identification of gene overexpression targets for enhanced antibiotic production in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).
abstract: Streptomycetes are industrially and pharmaceutically important bacteria that produce a variety of secondary metabolites including antibiotics. Streptomycetes have a complex metabolic network responsible for the production of secondary metabolites and the utilization of organic residues present in soil. In this study, we reconstructed a high-quality metabolic model for Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2), designated iMK1208, in order to understand and engineer the metabolism of this model species. In comparison to iIB711, the previous metabolic model for S. coelicolor, the predictive power of iMK1208 was enhanced by the recent insights that enabled the incorporation of an updated biomass equation, stoichiometric matrix, and energetic parameters. iMK1208 was validated by comparing predictions with the experimental data for growth capability in various growth media. Furthermore, we applied a strain-design algorithm, flux scanning based on enforced objective flux (FSEOF), to iMK1208 for actinorhodin overproduction. FSEOF results identified not only previously known gene overexpression targets such as actII-ORF4 and acetyl-CoA carboxylase, but also novel targets such as branched-chain α-keto acid dehydrogenase (BCDH). We constructed and evaluated the BCDH overexpression mutant, which showed a 52-fold increase in actinorhodin production, validating the prediction power of iMK1208. Hence iMK1208 was shown to be a useful and valuable framework for studying the biotechnologically important Streptomyces species using the principles of systems biology and metabolic engineering.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Bioengineering Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Minsuk
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jeong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sang Yi
authors.forename: Joonwon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Ji-Nu
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Min Woo
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Byung-Gee
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000880:Anthraquinones / Q000378:metabolism; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000378:metabolism*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D018533:Biomass; D003470:Culture Media / Q000378:metabolism; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D008954:Models, Biological; D048372:Streptomyces coelicolor / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D049490:Systems Biology; D000095622:Benzoisochromanequinones
chemical_list: D000880:Anthraquinones; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D003470:Culture Media; C013390:actinorhodin; D000095622:Benzoisochromanequinones
keywords: Antibiotics; BCDH; Genome-scale model; Metabolic engineering; Streptomyces coelicolor