Highly parallelized laboratory evolution of wine yeasts for enhanced metabolic phenotypes

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2024-10-03

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25

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MOLECULAR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY, Volume 20, issue 10, pp. 1109-1133

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Adaptive Laboratory Evolution (ALE) of microorganisms can improve the efficiency of sustainable industrial processes important to the global economy. However, stochasticity and genetic background effects often lead to suboptimal outcomes during laboratory evolution. Here we report an ALE platform to circumvent these shortcomings through parallelized clonal evolution at an unprecedented scale. Using this platform, we evolved 104 yeast populations in parallel from many strains for eight desired wine fermentation-related traits. Expansions of both ALE replicates and lineage numbers broadened the evolutionary search spectrum leading to improved wine yeasts unencumbered by unwanted side effects. At the genomic level, evolutionary gains in metabolic characteristics often coincided with distinct chromosome amplifications and the emergence of side-effect syndromes that were characteristic of each selection niche. Several high-performing ALE strains exhibited desired wine fermentation kinetics when tested in larger liquid cultures, supporting their suitability for application. More broadly, our high-throughput ALE platform opens opportunities for rapid optimization of microbes which otherwise could take many years to accomplish.

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Evolutionary Engineering, Experimental Evolution, Fermentation, Metabolism, Yeast

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Ghiaci, P, Jouhten, P, Martyushenko, N, Roca-Mesa, H, Vázquez, J, Konstantinidis, D, Stenberg, S, Andrejev, S, Grkovska, K, Mas, A, Beltran, G, Almaas, E, Patil, K R & Warringer, J 2024, ' Highly parallelized laboratory evolution of wine yeasts for enhanced metabolic phenotypes ', MOLECULAR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 1109-1133 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s44320-024-00059-0