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- Title
Predictive combinatorial design of mRNA translation initiation regions for systematic optimization of gene expression levels.
- Authors
Sang Woo Seo; Jae-Seong Yang; Han-Saem Cho; Jina Yang; Seong Cheol Kim; Jong Moon Park; Sanguk Kim; Gyoo Yeol Jung
- Abstract
Balancing the amounts of enzymes is one of the important factors to achieve optimum performance of a designed metabolic pathway. However, the random mutagenesis approach is impractical since it requires searching an unnecessarily large number of variants and often results in searching a narrow range of expression levels which are out of optimal level. Here, we developed a predictive combinatorial design method, called UTR Library Designer, which systematically searches a large combinatorial space of expression levels. It accomplishes this by designing synthetic translation initiation region of mRNAs in a predictive way based on a thermodynamic model and genetic algorithm. Using this approach, we successfully enhanced lysine and hydrogen production in Escherichia coli. Our method significantly reduced the number of variants to be explored for covering large combinatorial space and efficiently enhanced pathway efficiency, thereby facilitating future efforts in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology.
- Subjects
MESSENGER RNA; GENETIC translation; GENE expression; ESCHERICHIA coli; SYNTHETIC biology; COMBINATORIAL designs &; configurations
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2014, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/srep04515