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ArticleNature communications2021

Bayesian genome scale modelling identifies thermal determinants of yeast metabolism.

Gang Li, Yating Hu, Jan Zrimec, Hao Luo, Hao Wang, Aleksej Zelezniak, Boyang Ji, Jens Nielsen

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Gang LiDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-6778-2842
Yating HuDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Jan ZrimecDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-7099-961X
Hao LuoDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Hao WangDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-7475-0136
Aleksej ZelezniakDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Boyang JiDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Jens NielsenDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden. nielsenj@chalmers.se.ORCID 0000-0002-9955-6003
Chalmers University of Technology · SENovo Nordisk Foundation · DKScience for Life Laboratory · SEWallenberg Wood Science Center · SE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The molecular basis of how temperature affects cell metabolism has been a long-standing question in biology, where the main obstacles are the lack of high-quality data and methods to associate temperature effects on the function of individual proteins as well as to combine them at a systems level. Here we develop and apply a Bayesian modeling approach to resolve the temperature effects in genome scale metabolic models (GEM). The approach minimizes uncertainties in enzymatic thermal parameters and greatly improves the predictive strength of the GEMs. The resulting temperature constrained yeast GEM uncovers enzymes that limit growth at superoptimal temperatures, and squalene epoxidase (ERG1) is predicted to be the most rate limiting. By replacing this single key enzyme with an ortholog from a thermotolerant yeast strain, we obtain a thermotolerant strain that outgrows the wild type, demonstrating the critical role of sterol metabolism in yeast thermosensitivity. Therefore, apart from identifying thermal determinants of cell metabolism and enabling the design of thermotolerant strains, our Bayesian GEM approach facilitates modelling of complex biological systems in the absence of high-quality data and therefore shows promise for becoming a standard tool for genome scale modeling.

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Bayes TheoremGenome, FungalMachine LearningModels, BiologicalSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSqualene MonooxygenaseTemperatureYeastsSqualene Monooxygenase

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PMID33420025
PMCPMC7794507
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