How Reliable Are Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Cell Genome-scale Metabolic Models?

Overview

Journal Biotechnol Bioeng

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2023 Mar 3

PMID 36866411

Authors

Benjamin Strain

James Morrissey

Athanasios Antonakoudis

Cleo Kontoravdi

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Abstract

Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) possess the power to revolutionize bioprocess and cell line engineering workflows thanks to their ability to predict and understand whole-cell metabolism in silico. Despite this potential, it is currently unclear how accurately GEMs can capture both intracellular metabolic states and extracellular phenotypes. Here, we investigate this knowledge gap to determine the reliability of current Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell metabolic models. We introduce a new GEM, iCHO2441, and create CHO-S and CHO-K1 specific GEMs. These are compared against iCHO1766, iCHO2048, and iCHO2291. Model predictions are assessed via comparison with experimentally measured growth rates, gene essentialities, amino acid auxotrophies, and C intracellular reaction rates. Our results highlight that all CHO cell models are able to capture extracellular phenotypes and intracellular fluxes, with the updated GEM outperforming the original CHO cell GEM. Cell line-specific models were able to better capture extracellular phenotypes but failed to improve intracellular reaction rate predictions in this case. Ultimately, this work provides an updated CHO cell GEM to the community and lays a foundation for the development and assessment of next-generation flux analysis techniques, highlighting areas for model improvements.

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