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  • Metabolic Engineering
  • Systems Biology
  • Biotechnology

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  • Cellular energy transfer relies on cofactors like NAD(H) and NADP(H) for metabolic reactions.
  • Maintaining cellular redox balance is critical for physiological function.
  • Enzyme cofactor specificity engineering (CSE) is a promising strategy for metabolic manipulation, but target identification is challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a systematic computational approach for identifying enzyme targets for cofactor specificity engineering (CSE).
  • To identify suitable CSE targets for enhancing the production of native and non-native compounds in E. coli.
  • To explore the global metabolic consequences of altering cofactor specificity.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a novel mathematical framework, cofactor modification analysis (CMA), based on constraints-based flux analysis.
  • Applied the CMA algorithm to the E. coli genome-scale metabolic model (iJO1366).
  • Evaluated potential CSE targets for overproducing various native and non-native products.

Main Results:

  • Identified growth-coupled cofactor engineering targets for producing acetate, formate, ethanol, lactate, 1-butanol, 1,4-butanediol, and 1,3-propanediol in E. coli.
  • Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPD) emerged as a highly promising CSE target.
  • Modification of GAPD significantly enhanced both product and biomass yields.

Conclusions:

  • Cofactor modification analysis (CMA) provides a systematic method for identifying effective CSE targets.
  • GAPD is a validated target for enhancing microbial production through cofactor specificity engineering.
  • In silico protein docking experiments suggest potential mutational strategies for GAPD modification.