Metabolomics: quantification of intracellular metabolite dynamics
Metabolomics: quantification of intracellular metabolite dynamics
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10.1016/s1389-0344(02)00003-5
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2002-06-01
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Takors, R
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Buchholz, A;Hurlebaus, J;Takors, R
The rational improvement of microbial strains for the production of primary and secondary metabolites ('metabolic engineering') requires a quantitative understanding of microbial metabolism. A process by which this information can be derived from dynamic fermentation experiments is presented. By applying a substrate pulse to a substrate-limited, steady state culture, cellular metabolism is shifted away from its metabolic steady state. With the aid of a rapid sampling and quenching routine it is possible to take 4-5 samples per second during this process, thus capturing the metabolic response to this stimulus. Over 30 metabolites, nucleotides and cofactors from Escherichia coli metabolism can be extracted and analysed using a range of different techniques, for example enzymatic assays, HPLC and LC-MS methods. Using different substrates as limiting and pulse-substrates (glucose, glycerol), different metabolic pathways and substrate uptake systems are investigated. The resulting plots of intracellular metabolite concentrations against time serve as a data basis for modelling microbial metabolic networks. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.