Journal article
Literature mining supports a next-generation modeling approach to predict cellular byproduct secretion
University of California at San Diego1
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark2
ALE Technology & Software Development, Research Groups, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark3
Network Reconstruction in Silico Biology, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark4
Big Data 2 Knowledge, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark5
The metabolic byproducts secreted by growing cells can be easily measured and provide a window into the state of a cell; they have been essential to the development of microbiology, cancer biology, and biotechnology. Progress in computational modeling of cells has made it possible to predict metabolic byproduct secretion with bottom-up reconstructions of metabolic networks.
However, owing to a lack of data, it has not been possible to validate these predictions across a wide range of strains and conditions. Through literature mining, we were able to generate a database of Escherichia coli strains and their experimentally measured byproduct secretions. We simulated these strains in six historical genome-scale models of E. coli, and we report that the predictive power of the models has increased as they have expanded in size and scope.
The latest genome-scale model of metabolism correctly predicts byproduct secretion for 35/89 (39%) of designs. The next-generation genome-scale model of metabolism and gene expression (ME-model) correctly predicts byproduct secretion for 40/89 (45%) of designs, and we show that ME-model predictions could be further improved through kinetic parameterization.
We analyze the failure modes of these simulations and discuss opportunities to improve prediction of byproduct secretion.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2017 |
Pages: | 220-227 |
ISSN: | 10967176 and 10967184 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ymben.2016.12.004 |
ORCIDs: | Feist, Adam M. and Palsson, Bernhard O. |