Affiliation:
1. Department of Biotechnology and Food Science Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway
2. Synthetic Biology Program, Center for Genomic Sciences Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Cuernavaca Mexico
Abstract
AbstractThe elimination of the expression of cellular functions that are not needed in a certain well‐defined artificial environment, such as those used in industrial production facilities, has been the goal of many cellular minimization projects. The generation of a minimal cell with reduced burden and less host‐function interactions has been pursued as a tool to improve microbial production strains. In this work, we analysed two cellular complexity reduction strategies: genome and proteome reduction. With the aid of an absolute proteomics data set and a genome‐scale model of metabolism and protein expression (ME‐model), we quantitatively assessed the difference of reducing genome to the correspondence of reducing proteome. We compare the approaches in terms of energy consumption, defined in ATP equivalents. We aim to show what is the best strategy for improving resource allocation in minimized cells. Our results show that genome reduction by length is not proportional to reducing resource use. When we normalize calculated energy savings, we show that strains with the larger calculated proteome reduction show the largest resource use reduction. Furthermore, we propose that reducing highly expressed proteins should be the target as the translation of a gene uses most of the energy. The strategies proposed here should guide cell design when the aim of a project is to reduce the maximum amount or cellular resources.
Subject
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Biochemistry,Bioengineering,Biotechnology
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