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A kinetic metabolic study of lipid production in Chlorella protothecoides under heterotrophic condition

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Background Microalgae have been proposed as potential platform to produce lipid-derived products, such as biofuels. Knowledge on the intracellular carbon flow distribution may identify key metabolic processes during lipid synthesis thus refining culture/genetic strategies to maximize cell lipid productivity. A kinetic metabolic model simulating cell metabolic behavior and lipid production was first applied in the microalgae platform Chlorella protothecoides under heterotrophic condition. It combines both physiology and flux information in a kinetic approach. Cell nutrition, growth, lipid production and almost 30 metabolic intermediates covering central carbon metabolism were included and simulated. Results Model simulations were shown to adequately agree with experimental data, which is suggesting that the proposed model copes with Chlorella protothecoides cells’ biology. The dynamic metabolic flux analysis using the model showed a reversible starch flux from accumulation to decomposing when glucose reached depletion, while net lipid flux shows a quasi-constant rate. The sensitive flux parameters on starch and lipid metabolism suggested that starch synthesis is the major competing pathway that affects lipid accumulation in C. protothecoides. Flux analysis also demonstrated that high lipid yield under heterotrophic condition is accompanied with high lipid flux and low TCA activity. Meanwhile, the dynamic flux distribution also suggests a relatively constant ratio of glucose distributed to biomass, lipid, starch, nucleotides as well as pentose phosphate pathway. Conclusion The model described not only experimental data, but also unraveled intracellular carbon flow distribution and identify key metabolic processes during lipid synthesis. Most of the metabolic kinetics also showed statistical significance for metabolic mechanism. Therefore, this study unravels the mechanisms of the glucose impact on the dynamic carbon flux distribution, thus improving our understanding of the links between carbon fluxes and lipid metabolism in C. protothecoides.
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hal-02531282 , version 1 (03-04-2020)

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Xiaojie Ren, Jean-Sébastien Deschênes, Réjean Tremblay, Sabine Pérès, Mario Jolicœur. A kinetic metabolic study of lipid production in Chlorella protothecoides under heterotrophic condition. Microbial Cell Factories, 2019, 18 (1), ⟨10.1186/s12934-019-1163-4⟩. ⟨hal-02531282⟩
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