Model-Guided Identification of Gene Deletion Targets for Metabolic Engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), (2014)DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0563-8\_17
Abstract
Identification of metabolic engineering strategies for rerouting intracellular fluxes towards a desired product is often a challenging task owing to the topological and regulatory complexity of metabolic networks. Genome-scale metabolic models help tackling this complexity through systematic consideration of mass balance and reaction directionality constraints over the entire network. Here, we describe how genome-scale metabolic models can be used for identifying gene deletion targets leading to increased production of the desired product. Vanillin production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is used as a case study throughout this chapter.