Multi-strain Modeling of Pseudomonas putida Strains for Metabolic Diversity Discovery

Joshua Mueller Author

04/02/2021 Added

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Using Genome Scale Models to explore the diversity of Pseudomonas putida strains.

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[00:00:01.080]Hello. I am Joshua Mueller,
[00:00:03.060]a graduate student in the chemical and biomolecular engineering department being
[00:00:07.260]advised by Dr. Wei Niu.
[00:00:09.390]Today I'm going to present my research on multi-strain modeling of pseudomonas
[00:00:13.050]putida strains for metabolic diversity discovery.
[00:00:17.820]Currently our economy is largely dependent on petroleum to create a broad number
[00:00:22.290]of consumer products ranging from fuels to plastics, to pharmaceuticals.
[00:00:27.210]One of the best alternatives to petrochemicals is using microorganisms for the
[00:00:31.590]production of these value added products from renewable resources.
[00:00:35.970]Pseudomonas putida has been shown to be a strong candidate for this process
[00:00:39.960]due to a number of its beneficial characteristics,
[00:00:42.630]such as being amenable to genetic manipulations,
[00:00:45.660]and also having a broad metabolism and tolerance to some industrial solvents.
[00:00:50.550]My research aims to help explore the diversity among strains of pseudomonas
[00:00:54.390]putida and in the process gain more understanding of the genetics that
[00:00:58.290]gives them their broad metabolic capabilities.
[00:01:02.550]To do this I utilize genome scale models.
[00:01:05.400]These are way to convert the metabolic reactions of an organism into a
[00:01:09.000]mathematical matrix.
[00:01:10.980]The computerized matrix then serves as the basis to explore how the reactions
[00:01:14.700]in genes are related to each other.
[00:01:17.130]Additional information can be incorporated into the models that provide info
[00:01:20.760]about the underlying genes necessary for reactions.
[00:01:24.660]Genome scale models can then be used for a variety of purposes,
[00:01:28.050]such as exploring the effects of gene knockouts or growth abilities in different
[00:01:31.890]environments.
[00:01:35.040]I used the well curated genome scale model of pseudomonas putida,
[00:01:38.340]KT2440 as a template to create strain specific models of a large
[00:01:42.990]number of previously uncharacterized strains.
[00:01:46.680]By identifying the homologous genes between strains,
[00:01:49.290]it is possible to create the framework of new models while skipping much of the
[00:01:52.920]more time intensive process that is typically involved in the construction of
[00:01:56.550]most genome scale models.
[00:01:59.920]For my project, 44 new strains of pseudomonas putida that were purchased from the American type
[00:02:05.310]culture collection and were fully sequenced by some of our collaborators
[00:02:10.140]To gather experimental data to validate and expand the models,
[00:02:13.380]the strains were grown on Biolog plates. As shown, Biolog plates are commercially
[00:02:18.330]available 96 well plates, where each well contains a different growth environment.
[00:02:23.580]Use of the plates and an appropriate plate reader then allows for testing of a
[00:02:27.150]wide variety of growth environments in a very short period of time.
[00:02:31.290]Our testing used biolog plates that contain different carbon sources,
[00:02:35.040]which allowed rapid evaluation of the strains growth capabilities on a variety
[00:02:38.940]of metabolites.
[00:02:42.270]The genomic and biolog data were then used to create a pan pseudomonas putida
[00:02:46.480]model that contained all of the genes and reactions that were present in any of
[00:02:50.280]the strains. As you can see,
[00:02:53.340]this model greatly expanded on the reference model of KT 2440 and added more
[00:02:57.960]than a hundred genes and over 150 new metabolic reactions.
[00:03:02.800]The biolog data was also used to test the ability for the individualized strain
[00:03:07.120]models to correctly predict growth on each of the carbon sources.
[00:03:11.620]The shown figure provides a summary for how well the models are at correctly,
[00:03:15.070]predicting growth on different carbon sources.
[00:03:18.490]Each column in the figure represents the predictions of a model for a specific
[00:03:22.120]strain of pseudomonas putida,
[00:03:23.920]and each row shows the predictions for a given metabolite.
[00:03:27.610]As you can see in the figure,
[00:03:28.840]there's a large block of true positives at the bottom that indicate that the
[00:03:32.500]models and experimental data are in agreement about the ability for growth on a
[00:03:36.130]given metabolite.
[00:03:37.900]There's also a large block in the middle of true negatives or the model and data
[00:03:41.560]are in agreement about the inability for growth.
[00:03:44.950]The false negatives represent areas where the model likely is lacking a
[00:03:48.220]metabolic reaction.
[00:03:49.390]And so doesn't predict growth when the biolog data indicates that it should.
[00:03:55.000]Those false negatives represent the first and easiest direction for future
[00:03:58.420]research by pointing to areas that we likely don't know enough about pseudomonas
[00:04:02.260]putida's metabolism and the underlying genes.
[00:04:06.071]These models do however
[00:04:07.510]show that this method can be a useful way to better explore a species' diversity
[00:04:12.040]without requiring months or years of experimental lab research.
[00:04:16.390]The models also can be used with a variety of tools that have already been
[00:04:19.780]created for genome scale models.
[00:04:22.870]Methods exist that can predict the effects of gene knockouts,
[00:04:25.990]as well as predicting optimal genetic mutations for production of a desired
[00:04:29.800]compound. If these models are combined with those methods,
[00:04:33.520]they could indicate strains that are optimal for a desired purpose without need
[00:04:37.510]of extensive experimental testing.
[00:04:41.230]I hope you enjoyed and learned from my presentation today.
[00:04:44.320]I would like to first and foremost, thank my advisor, Dr.
[00:04:46.690]Wei Niu for all the help she has been. I would also like to thank doctors,
[00:04:50.500]John Monk and Adam Feist.
[00:04:52.240]They are two of our collaborators that have helped the most with the
[00:04:55.090]modeling aspect of this work. Thank you once again for your attention.
[00:04:58.690]And I hope you have a good rest of your day.

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