Rapid exometabolome footprinting combined with multivariate statistics: A powerful tool for bioprocess optimization

Abstract Corynebacterium glutamicum is used as an industrial platform organism for amino acid production. Previously, the organism was utilized to produce l‐histidine with research focusing on metabolic engineering approaches to increase titer and yield. Only a few studies have been published that p...

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Main Authors: Alexander Reiter, Lars Wesseling, Wolfgang Wiechert, Marco Oldiges
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Published: Wiley-VCH 2025-02-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/elsc.202300222
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Marco Oldiges
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description Abstract Corynebacterium glutamicum is used as an industrial platform organism for amino acid production. Previously, the organism was utilized to produce l‐histidine with research focusing on metabolic engineering approaches to increase titer and yield. Only a few studies have been published that provide information on bioprocess development, with media optimization and fed‐batch cultivation procedure being particularly promising areas. In this work, we show how experimental setups such as miniature cultivation technology, dynamic and time‐optimized LC‐MS/MS metabolic footprinting tools, and automated workflows for the detection of local and global metabolic patterns can significantly accelerate bioprocess development. Potential media bottlenecks in form of phosphate and magnesium availability were identified by sensitivity analysis in parallelized microscale cultivation assisted by lab automation. A rapid dilute‐and‐shoot flow‐injection‐analysis tandem mass spectrometry approach was used to cope with the resulting cultivation throughput and allowed to quantify amino acids with 1 min per sample. We were able to increase the l‐histidine titer of a C. glutamicum random mutagenesis mutant by a factor of 5.8 through process optimization while also identifying both known and previously unknown targets for additional strain improvements. The presented methodology can be seen as a supplement to traditional approaches in the field of bioprocess development.
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spelling doaj-art-0fbb218e8f88442a9f9004b2be37b8f22025-08-20T02:04:22ZengWiley-VCHEngineering in Life Sciences1618-02401618-28632025-02-01252n/an/a10.1002/elsc.202300222Rapid exometabolome footprinting combined with multivariate statistics: A powerful tool for bioprocess optimizationAlexander Reiter0Lars Wesseling1Wolfgang Wiechert2Marco Oldiges3Institute of Bio‐ and Geosciences IBG‐1: Biotechnology Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Jülich GermanyInstitute of Bio‐ and Geosciences IBG‐1: Biotechnology Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Jülich GermanyInstitute of Bio‐ and Geosciences IBG‐1: Biotechnology Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Jülich GermanyInstitute of Bio‐ and Geosciences IBG‐1: Biotechnology Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Jülich GermanyAbstract Corynebacterium glutamicum is used as an industrial platform organism for amino acid production. Previously, the organism was utilized to produce l‐histidine with research focusing on metabolic engineering approaches to increase titer and yield. Only a few studies have been published that provide information on bioprocess development, with media optimization and fed‐batch cultivation procedure being particularly promising areas. In this work, we show how experimental setups such as miniature cultivation technology, dynamic and time‐optimized LC‐MS/MS metabolic footprinting tools, and automated workflows for the detection of local and global metabolic patterns can significantly accelerate bioprocess development. Potential media bottlenecks in form of phosphate and magnesium availability were identified by sensitivity analysis in parallelized microscale cultivation assisted by lab automation. A rapid dilute‐and‐shoot flow‐injection‐analysis tandem mass spectrometry approach was used to cope with the resulting cultivation throughput and allowed to quantify amino acids with 1 min per sample. We were able to increase the l‐histidine titer of a C. glutamicum random mutagenesis mutant by a factor of 5.8 through process optimization while also identifying both known and previously unknown targets for additional strain improvements. The presented methodology can be seen as a supplement to traditional approaches in the field of bioprocess development.https://doi.org/10.1002/elsc.202300222bioprocess developmentCorynebacterium glutamicumdilute‐and‐shootflow‐injection‐analysisl‐histidinemass spectrometry
spellingShingle Alexander Reiter
Lars Wesseling
Wolfgang Wiechert
Marco Oldiges
Rapid exometabolome footprinting combined with multivariate statistics: A powerful tool for bioprocess optimization
Engineering in Life Sciences
bioprocess development
Corynebacterium glutamicum
dilute‐and‐shoot
flow‐injection‐analysis
l‐histidine
mass spectrometry
title Rapid exometabolome footprinting combined with multivariate statistics: A powerful tool for bioprocess optimization
title_full Rapid exometabolome footprinting combined with multivariate statistics: A powerful tool for bioprocess optimization
title_fullStr Rapid exometabolome footprinting combined with multivariate statistics: A powerful tool for bioprocess optimization
title_full_unstemmed Rapid exometabolome footprinting combined with multivariate statistics: A powerful tool for bioprocess optimization
title_short Rapid exometabolome footprinting combined with multivariate statistics: A powerful tool for bioprocess optimization
title_sort rapid exometabolome footprinting combined with multivariate statistics a powerful tool for bioprocess optimization
topic bioprocess development
Corynebacterium glutamicum
dilute‐and‐shoot
flow‐injection‐analysis
l‐histidine
mass spectrometry
url https://doi.org/10.1002/elsc.202300222
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