Systems Biology of Industrial Microorganisms
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2010

The field of industrial biotechnology is expanding rapidly as the chemical industry is looking towards more sustainable production of chemicals that can be used as fuels or building blocks for production of solvents and materials. In connection with the development of sustainable bioprocesses, it is a major challenge to design and develop efficient cell factories that can ensure cost efficient conversion of the raw material into the chemical of interest. This is achieved through metabolic engineering, where the metabolism of the cell factory is engineered such that there is an efficient conversion of sugars, the typical raw materials in the fermentation industry, into the desired product. However, engineering of cellular metabolism is often challenging due to the complex regulation that has evolved in connection with adaptation of the different microorganisms to their ecological niches. In order to map these regulatory structures and further de-regulate them, as well as identify ingenious metabolic engineering strategies that full-fill mass balance constraints, tools from systems biology can be applied. This involves both high-throughput analysis tools like transcriptome, proteome and metabolome analysis, as well as the use of mathematical modeling to simulate the phenotypes resulting from the different metabolic engineering strategies. It is in fact expected that systems biology may substantially improve the process of cell factory development, and we therefore propose the term Industrial Systems Biology for how systems biology will enhance the development of industrial biotechnology for sustainable chemical production.

Systems biology

bidirectional reaction steps

yeast

candida-utilis

sequence

lipase-encoding gene

Metabolic engineering

Industrial biotechnology

engineered saccharomyces-cerevisiae

tandem mass-spectrometry

metabolic flux analysis

complete genome

human lig4 homolog

lactic-acid production

fungus aspergillus-fumigatus

Författare

Marta Papini

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik, Livsvetenskaper

Margarita Salazar Pena

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik, Livsvetenskaper

Jens B Nielsen

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik, Livsvetenskaper

Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology

0724-6145 (ISSN) 1616-8542 (eISSN)

Vol. 120 51-99
9783642142307 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier

Industriell bioteknik

Styrkeområden

Livsvetenskaper och teknik (2010-2018)

DOI

10.1007/10_2009_59

ISBN

9783642142307

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2017-10-07