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ArticleBiotechnology and bioengineering2022

A kinetic framework for modeling oleochemical biosynthesis in Escherichia coli.

Jackson Peoples, Sophia Ruppe, Kathryn Mains, Elia C Cipriano, Jerome M Fox

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Article in Biotechnology and bioengineering, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jackson PeoplesDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Sophia RuppeDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Kathryn MainsDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Elia C CiprianoDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Jerome M FoxDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3739-1899
University of Colorado Boulder · US

Funding

Predoctoral Training Molecular BiophysicsT32GM065103 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER · PI FALKE, JOSEPH J · 2002 to 2021
$4.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM065103
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microorganisms build fatty acids with biocatalytic assembly lines, or fatty acid synthases (FASs), that can be repurposed to produce a broad set of fuels and chemicals. Despite their versatility, the product profiles of FAS-based pathways are challenging to adjust without experimental iteration, and off-target products are common. This study uses a detailed kinetic model of the Escherichia coli FAS as a foundation to model nine oleochemical pathways. These models provide good fits to experimental data and help explain unexpected results from in vivo studies. An analysis of pathways for alkanes and fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEEs), for example, suggests that reductions in titer caused by enzyme overexpression-an experimentally consistent phenomenon-can result from shifts in metabolite pools that are incompatible with the substrate specificities of downstream enzymes, and a focused examination of multiple alcohol pathways indicates that coordinated shifts in enzyme concentrations provide a general means of tuning the product profiles of pathways with promiscuous components. The study concludes by integrating all models into a graphical user interface. The models supplied by this work provide a versatile kinetic framework for studying oleochemical pathways in different biochemical contexts.

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Escherichia coliMetabolic EngineeringAlkanesFatty AcidsFatty Acid SynthasesAlkanesFatty AcidsFatty Acid Synthasesenzyme cascadesfatty acid synthaseskinetic modelingmetabolic engineeringoleochemicals

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PMID35959746
PMCPMC9588398
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