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  • 1
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 154-161 
    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: central carbon pathways ; metabolic optimization ; ethanol production ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Many attempts to engineer cellular metabolism have failed due to the complexity of cellular functions. Mathematical and computational methods are needed that can organize the available experimental information, and provide insight and guidance for successful metabolic engineering. Two such methods are reviewed here. Both methods employ a (log)linear kinetic model of metabolism that is constructed based on enzyme kinetics characteristics. The first method allows the description of the dynamic responses of metabolic systems subject to spatiotemporal variations in their parameters. The second method considers the product-oriented, constrained optimization of metabolic reaction networks using mixed-integer linear programming methods. The optimization framework is used in order to identify the combinations of the metabolic characteristics of the glycolytic enzymes from yeast and bacteria that will maximize ethanol production. The methods are also applied to the design of microbial ethanol production metabolism. The results of the calculations are in qualitative agreement with experimental data presented here. Experiments and calculations suggest that, in resting Escherichia coli cells, ethanol production and glucose uptake rates can be increased by 30% and 20%, respectively, by overexpression of a deregulated pyruvate kinase, while increase in phosphofructokinase expression levels has no effect on ethanol production and glucose uptake rates. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 58:154-161, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 445-450 
    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: CHO cells ; glycosylation engineering ; antisense ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Novel glycoproteins, inaccessible by other techniques, can be obtained by metabolic engineering of the oligosaccharide biosynthesis pathway. Furthermore, alteration of cell-surface oligosaccharides can change the properties of receptors involved in cell-cell adhesion. Sialyl Lewis X (sLex) is a cell-surface oligosaccharide determinant which is specifically expressed on granulocytes and monocytes and which interacts with selectins to influence leukocyte trafficking, thrombosis, inflammation, and cancer. Antisense technology targeting fucosyltransferase VI (Fuc-TVI), an enzyme necessary for the synthesis of the sLex in engineered Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, has reduced Fuc-TVI activity, sLex synthesis, and adhesion to endothelial cells. Antisense methodology to reduce targeted activity in oligosaccharide biosynthesis or other pathways is an important addition to CHO cell metabolic engineering capabilities. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59:445-450, 1998.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: cyclin E expression ; CHO cells ; insulin ; fibroblast growth factor ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Exogenous growth factors normally required in cell culture activate cell proliferation via the molecular controls of cell-cycle progression. Highly differing influences of mitogenic stimulation of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells by insulin and basic fibroblast growth factor(bFGF) have been clearly observed in a defined protein-free medium. CHO K1 cells stimulated only with insulin grow with flattened cell morphology and extensive cell-cell contact, whereas stimulation with only bFGF or bFGF plus insulin results in loss of cell-cell contact and a transformed and rounded-up morphology. Compared with insulin-stimulated cells, bFGF-stimulated cells exhibit a relatively long G1, and short S phase, and contain higher levels of cyclin E. Observation of elevated levels of cyclin E in wild-type CHO K1 cells mitogenically stimulated by basic fibroblast growth factor motivated transfection of these cells by a cyclin E expression vector. These transfectants grew rapidly in protein-free basal medium and had similar cyclin b levels, distributions of nuclear cell-cycle times, and cell morphologies as bFGF-stimutated CHO K1 culture. Metabolic engineering of cell-cycle regulation thus bypasses exogenous growth factor requirements, addressing a priority objective in economical, reproducible, and safe biopharmaceutical manufacturing. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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    Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell
    AIChE Journal 42 (1996), S. 1277-1292 
    ISSN: 0001-1541
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Chemical Engineering
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Improvements in bioprocess performance can be achieved by genetic modifications of metabolic control structures. A novel optimization problem helps quantitative understanding and rational metabolic engineering of metabolic reaction pathways. Maximizing the performance of a metabolic reaction pathway is treated as a mixed-integer linear programming formulation to identify changes in regulatory structure and strength and in cellular content of pertinent enzymes which should be implemented to optimize a particular metabolic process. A regulatory superstructure proposed contains all alternative regulatory structures that can be considered for a given pathway. This approach is followed to find the optimal regulatory structure for maximization of phenylalanine selectivity in the microbial aromatic amino acid synthesis pathway. The solution suggests that from the eight feedback inhibitory loops in the original regulatory structure of this pathway, inactivation of at least three loops and overexpression of three enzymes will increase phenylalanine selectivity by 42%. Moreover, novel regulatory structures with only two loops, none of which exists in the original pathway, could result in a selectivity up to 95%.
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 47 (1995), S. 347-354 
    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: NADH fluorescence ; culture redox potential ; Vitreoscilla hemoglobin ; oxygen fluctuation ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: On-line NAD(P)H fluorescence and culture redox potential (CRP) measurements were utilized to investigate the role of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb) in perturbing oxygen metabolism of microaerobic Escherichia coli Batch cultures of a VHb-synthesizing E. coli strain and the iso-genic control under fully aerated conditions were subject to several high/low oxygen transitions, and the NAD(P)H fluorescence and CRP were monitored during these passages. The presence of VHb decreased the rate of net NAD(P)H generation by 2.4-fold under diminishing oxygen tension. In the absence of aeration, the strain producing VHb maintained a steady NAD(P)H level 1.8-fold less than that of the control, indicating that the presence of VHb keeps E. coli in a more oxidized state under oxygen-limited conditions. Estimated from CRP, the oxygen uptake rates near anoxia were 25% higher for cells with VHb than those without. These results suggest that VHb-expressing cells have a higher microaerobic electron transport chain turnover rate. To examine how NAD(P)H utilization of VHb-expressing cells responds to rapidly changing oxygen tension, which is common in large-scale fermentations, we pulsed air intermittently into a cell suspension and recorded the fluorescence response to the imposed dissolved oxygen (DO) fluctuation. Relative to the control, cells containing VHb had a sluggish fluorescence response to sudden changes of oxygen tension, suggesting that VHb buffers intracellular redox perturbations caused by extracellular DO fluctuations.© John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: metabolic engineering ; CHO cell ; E2F-1 ; serum-free cell culture ; two-dimensional electrophoresis of proteins ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Engineering of the cell cycle can be an effective means for bypassing growth factor requirements of animal cells. Cloned human E2F-1 from Nalm 6 cells was subcloned into pRc/CMV and transfected into Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Ten stable transfectant clones isolated from cells cultured under neomycin-resistance selection pressure all expressed significantly higher amounts of E2F-1 than control cells as determined by Western analysis. Confocal immunofluorescent microscopy and Southern analysis of several clones also provided evidence for the expression of cloned E2F-1 in these cells. CHO K1:E2F-1 cells are able to proliferate on well-defined serum- and protein-free basal medium and exhibit an S-phase extended by 65% compared to CHO K1 cells mitogenically stimulated by basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF). Two-dimensional electrophoresis of the intracellular proteins of E2F-1 clones shows an increase in 236 gene products compared to CHO K1 control cells, further verifying a functional regulatory role of cloned E2F-1 in CHO cells. Among these upregulated species is the cell cycle regulatory protein, cyclin A, which has already been shown to be regulated by E2F-1 in human fibroblasts. Overexpression of cloned E2F-1 in CHO cells is a potentially useful new strategy for bypassing serum requirements in mammalian cell culture. Furthermore, such cell cycle control stimulus-protein pattern response data can contribute to a clearer understanding of complex multigene networks involved in mammalian cell cycle regulation. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 47 (1995), S. 8-19 
    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: membrane transport ; proton-motive force ; pH homeostasis ; uncoupling agent ; glycolysis ; acetic acid ; lactic acid ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Escherichia coli produces lactate and acetate in significant amounts during both aerobic and anaerobic glycolysis. A model describing the mechanism of protein mediated lactate transport has previously bee proposed. A simple theoretical analysis here indicates that the proposed model would be drain cellular energy resources by catalytically dissipating the proton-motive force. An experimental analysis of lactate and acetate transport employ nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to measure the relative concentration of these end products on the two sides of the cytoplasmic membrane of anaerobically glycolyzing cells. Comparison of measured concentration rations to those expected at equilibrium for various transport modes indicates that acetate is a classical uncoupling agent, permeating the membrane oat comparable rates in the dissociated and undissociated forms. The lactate concentration ratio changes market markedly after an initial period of sustained glycolysis. This change is most readily explained as resulting from a lactate transport system that responds to an indicator of glycolytic activity. The data further indicates that lactate permeates the membrane in both dissociated and undissociated forms. Both acids, then are capable of catalytically dissipating the proton-motives force. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 56 (1997), S. 583-590 
    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: 31P NMR ; PTS mutant ; Escherichia coli ; metabolism ; energetics ; glucose uptake system ; galactose symport system ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Modifying substrate uptake systems is a potentially powerful tool in metabolic engineering. This research investigates energetic and metabolic changes brought about by the genetic modification of the glucose uptake and phosphorylation system of Escherichia coli. The engineered strain PPA316, which lacks the E. coli phosphotransferase system (PTS) and uses instead the galactose-proton symport system for glucose uptake, exhibited significantly altered metabolic patterns relative to the parent strain PPA305 which retains PTS activity. Replacement of a PTS uptake system by the galactose-proton symport system is expected to lower the carbon flux to pyruvate in both aerobic and anaerobic cultivations. The extra energy cost in substrate uptake for the non-PTS strain PPA 316 had a greater effect on anaerobic specific growth rate, which was reduced by a factor of five relative to PPA 305, while PPA 316 reached a specific growth rate of 60% of that of the PTS strain under aerobic conditions. The maximal cell densities obtained with PPA 316 were approximately 8% higher than those of the PTS strain under aerobic conditions and 14% lower under anaerobic conditions. In vivo NMR results showed that the non-PTS strain possesses a dramatically different intracellular environment, as evidenced by lower levels of total sugar phosphate, NAD(H), nucleoside triphosphates and phosphoenolpyruvate, and higher levels of nucleoside diphosphates. The sugar phosphate compositions, as measured by extract NMR, were considerably different between these two strains. Data suggest that limitations in the rates of steps catalyzed by glucokinase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, phosphofructokinase, and pyruvate kinase may be responsible for the low overall rate of glucose metabolism in PPA316. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 56: 583-590, 1997.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 52 (1996), S. 109-121 
    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: inverse metabolic engineering ; hemoglobin ; cell cycle ; CHO cell culture ; culture fluorescence ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: The classical method of metabolic engineering, identifying a rate-determining step in a pathway and alleviating the bottleneck by enzyme overexpression, has motivated much research but has enjoyed only limited practical success. Intervention of other limiting steps, of counterbalancing regulation, and of unknown coupled pathways often confounds this direct approach. Here the concept of inverse metabolic engineering is codified and its application is illustrated with several examples. Inverse metabolic engineering means the elucidation of a metabolic engineering strategy by: first, identifying, constructing, or calculating a desired phenotype; second, determining the genetic or the particular environmental factors conferring that phenotype; and third, endowing that phenotype on another strain or organism by directed genetic or environmental manipulation. This paradigm has been successfully applied in several contexts, including elimination of growth factor requirements in mammalian cell culture and increasing the energetic efficiency of microaerobic bacterial respiration. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 59 (1998), S. 227-238 
    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: Bacillus subtilis ; folic acid ; metabolic engineering ; metabolic fluxes ; purine nucleosides ; riboflavin ; stoichiometric model ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: We developed a stoichiometric model of Bacillus subtilis metabolism for quantitative analysis of theoretical growth and biochemicals production capacity. This work concentrated on biochemicals that are derived from the purine biosynthesis pathway; inosine, guanosine, riboflavin, and folic acid. These are examples of commercially relevant biochemicals for which Bacillus species are commonly used production hosts. Two previously unrecognized, but highly desirable properties of good producers of purine pathway-related biochemicals have been identified for optimally engineered product biosynthesis; high capacity for reoxidation of NADPH and high bioenergetic efficiency. Reoxidation of NADPH, through the transhydrogenase or otherwise, appears to be particularly important for growth on glucose, as deduced from the corresponding optimal carbon flux distribution. The importance of cellular energetics on optimal performance was quantitatively assessed by including a bioenergetic efficiency parameter as an unrestricted, ATP dissipating flux in the simulations. An estimate for the bioenergetic efficiency was generated by fitting the model to experimentally determined growth yields. The results show that the maximum theoretical yields of all products studied are limited by pathway stoichiometry at high bioenergetic efficiencies. Simulations with the estimated bioenergetic efficiency of B. subtilis, growing under glucose-limiting conditions, indicate that the yield of these biochemicals is primarily limited by energy and thus is very sensitive to the process conditions. The maximum yields that can reasonably be expected with B. subtilis on glucose were estimated to be 0.343, 0.160, and 0.161 (mol product/mol glucose) for purine nucleosides, riboflavin, and folic acid, respectively. Potential strategies for improving these maximum yields are discussed. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 59: 227-238, 1998.
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