Corynebacterium glutamicum - JUWEL - Forschungszentrum Jülich
Corynebacterium glutamicum - JUWEL - Forschungszentrum Jülich
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2. Theory<br />
with Yps being the yield of product on substrate and rp the rate of product formation,<br />
which can for instance be described by a Monod-type equation:<br />
CSCX<br />
rp = πmax<br />
KP + CS<br />
(2.15)<br />
where πmax is the maximal specific production rate and KP a bindings constant analogue<br />
to the Monod-constant KS in equation 2.9.<br />
For the third class, where there is no clear coupling between the energy generation<br />
and product formation, one general mechanistic model cannot be given. For instance<br />
secondary metabolites such as antibiotics have been categorized in this group.<br />
Multiple Substrates<br />
The prior model equations presume one rate-controlling substrate. This may hold for<br />
many cases, but an increasing amount of processes which are controlled by more than<br />
one substrate are being reported.<br />
Now let the overall specific growth rate µ be defined by<br />
rx = µCX<br />
(2.16)<br />
Several macroscopic descriptions of this overall specific growth rate, controlled by<br />
multiple substrates, have been reported, such as a multiplicative, additive and noninteractive<br />
approach (Neeleman et al., 2001; Roels, 1983).<br />
In the multiplicative case, the overall specific growth rate is calculated by multiplying<br />
the fractions of the maximal specific growth rate according to the different substrates,<br />
so for n substrates:<br />
n�<br />
µ =<br />
(2.17)<br />
µS,i<br />
i=1<br />
where µS,i is the specific growth rate supported by substrate i. So for instance using two<br />
simple Monod type kinetics for both substrates S1 andS2, the overall specific growth<br />
rate according to the multiplicative approach would be 9,10<br />
µ = µmax<br />
CS1<br />
CS2<br />
KS1 + CS1 KS2 + CS2<br />
(2.18)<br />
One major drawback of this multiplicative approach is the fact that moderate limitation<br />
by several substrates leads to severe limitation of the overall growth rate, which is<br />
unlikely to be the real case.<br />
9 Only one maximal specific growth rate µmax is used here. When separate maximal growth rates for<br />
both substrates are used, these would not be distinguishable mathematically. Furthermore, from a<br />
mechanistic point of view, one maximal rate and two processes which limit this is also well interpretable.<br />
10 The mechanistic theory behind the Michaelis-Menten kinetics for enzyme reactions does not support<br />
this multiplication (Biselli, 1992) but for whole cell processes it has often been used successfully.<br />
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