scholarly journals A genome‐scale metabolic network model and machine learning predict amino acid concentrations in Chinese Hamster Ovary cell cultures

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (5) ◽  
pp. 2118-2123
Author(s):  
Song‐Min Schinn ◽  
Carly Morrison ◽  
Wei Wei ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Nathan E. Lewis
Author(s):  
Song-Min Schinn ◽  
Carly Morrison ◽  
Wei Wei ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Nathan E. Lewis

AbstractThe control of nutrient availability is critical to large-scale manufacturing of biotherapeutics. However, the quantification of proteinogenic amino acids is time-consuming and thus is difficult to implement for real-time in situ bioprocess control. Genome-scale metabolic models describe the metabolic conversion from media nutrients to proliferation and recombinant protein production, and therefore are a promising platform for in silico monitoring and prediction of amino acid concentrations. This potential has not been realized due to unresolved challenges: (1) the models assume an optimal and highly efficient metabolism, and therefore tend to underestimate amino acid consumption, and (2) the models assume a steady state, and therefore have a short forecast range. We address these challenges by integrating machine learning with the metabolic models. Through this we demonstrate accurate and time-course dependent prediction of individual amino acid concentration in culture medium throughout the production process. Thus, these models can be deployed to control nutrient feeding to avoid premature nutrient depletion or provide early predictions of failed bioreactor runs.


2012 ◽  
Vol 110 (5) ◽  
pp. 1342-1353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongchang Qiu ◽  
Nathan Jones ◽  
Michelle Busch ◽  
Peng Pan ◽  
Jesse Keegan ◽  
...  

1991 ◽  
Vol 146 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Maria Rotoli ◽  
Ovidio Bussolati ◽  
Valeria Dall'asta ◽  
Gian Carlo Gazzola

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bergthor Traustason

SummaryMajority of biopharmaceutical drugs today are produced by Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, which have been the standard industry host for the past decades. To produce and secrete a substantial amount of the target recombinant proteins the CHO cells must be provided with suitable growth conditions and provided with the necessary nutrients. Amino acids play a key role in this as the building blocks of proteins, playing important roles in a large number of metabolic pathways and being important sources of nitrogen as well as carbon under certain conditions. In this study exploratory analysis of the amino acid requirements of CHO cells was carried out using metabolic modelling approaches. Flux balance analysis was employed to evaluate the optimal distribution of fluxes in a genome-scale model of CHO cells to gain information on the cells’ metabolic response in silico.The results showed that providing non-essential amino acids (NEAAs) has a positive effect on CHO cell biomass production and that cysteine as well as tyrosine play a fundamental role in this. This implies that extracellular provision of NEAAs limits the extent of energy loss in amino acid biosynthetic pathways and renders additional reducing power available for other biological processes. Detailed analysis of the possible secretion and uptake of D-serine in the CHO model was also performed and its influence on the rest of the metabolism mapped out, which revealed results matching various existing literature. This is interesting since no mention of D-serine in regard to CHO cells was found in current literature, as well as the fact that this opens up the possibility of using the model for better understanding of certain disorders in higher up organisms that have been implicated with D-serine, such as motor neuron and cognitive degeneration. Finally, outcome from the model optimisation of different recombinant proteins demonstrated clearly how the difference in protein structure and size can influence the production outcome. These results show that systematic and model-based approaches have great potential for broad de novo exploration as well as being able to handle the cellular burden associated with the production of different types of recombinant protein.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document