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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 />

14

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