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Reconstruction, simulation and analysis of enzyme-constrained metabolic models using GECKO Toolbox 3.0.

Yu Chen, Johan Gustafsson, Albert Tafur Rangel, Mihail Anton, Iván Domenzain, Cheewin Kittikunapong, Feiran Li, Le Yuan, Jens Nielsen, Eduard J Kerkhoven

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10 authors.

Yu Chen *Department of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-3326-9068
Johan Gustafsson *Department of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5072-2659
Albert Tafur Rangel *Department of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-9428-183X
Mihail AntonDepartment of Life Sciences, National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden, Science for Life Laboratory, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-7753-9042
Iván DomenzainDepartment of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-5322-2040
Cheewin KittikunapongDepartment of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Feiran LiDepartment of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-9155-5260
Le YuanDepartment of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-3317-9011
Jens NielsenDepartment of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Eduard J KerkhovenDepartment of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. eduardk@chalmers.se.ORCID 0000-0002-3593-5792

Funding

EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) 720824EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) 814650Novo Nordisk Fonden (Novo Nordisk Foundation) NNF20CC0035580Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas (Swedish Research Council Formas) 2018-00597Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) 2019-04624
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Abstract

Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) are computational representations that enable mathematical exploration of metabolic behaviors within cellular and environmental constraints. Despite their wide usage in biotechnology, biomedicine and fundamental studies, there are many phenotypes that GEMs are unable to correctly predict. GECKO is a method to improve the predictive power of a GEM by incorporating enzymatic constraints using kinetic and omics data. GECKO has enabled reconstruction of enzyme-constrained metabolic models (ecModels) for diverse organisms, which show better predictive performance than conventional GEMs. In this protocol, we describe how to use the latest version GECKO 3.0; the procedure has five stages: (1) expansion from a starting metabolic model to an ecModel structure, (2) integration of enzyme turnover numbers into the ecModel structure, (3) model tuning, (4) integration of proteomics data into the ecModel and (5) simulation and analysis of ecModels. GECKO 3.0 incorporates deep learning-predicted enzyme kinetics, paving the way for improved metabolic models for virtually any organism and cell line in the absence of experimental data. The time of running the whole protocol is organism dependent, e.g., ~5 h for yeast.

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Metabolic EngineeringModels, BiologicalComputer SimulationMetabolic Networks and PathwaysSaccharomyces cerevisiae

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