Abstract 与 INTRODUCTION
摘要提出微生物组的空间和时间变化受多重分子与生态因素影响,这既带来应用潜力也带来设计挑战。引言把研究目标概括为预测性调节组成、增强功能和安装新功能,并强调需要跨微生物学、生态学、医学、计算科学、数学和工程的整合方法。
这篇综述讨论如何把系统生物学的多组学、成像、代谢流、模型与合成生物学的遗传改造、群落构建和生物遏制结合起来,以理解并可预测地工程化微生物组。作者关心的核心问题是:在空间、时间、环境和相互作用高度复杂的微生物组中,哪些测量和模型能揭示控制点,哪些工程策略能调节群落组成、增强已有功能或安装新功能。文章把“理解”和“改造”视为循环促进的过程,而不是彼此分离的任务。
| 题名 | Integrating Systems and Synthetic Biology to Understand and Engineer Microbiomes |
| 作者 | Patrick A. Leggieri, Yiyi Liu, Madeline Hayes, Bryce Connors, Susanna Seppälä, Michelle A. O’Malley, Ophelia S. Venturelli |
| 期刊/年份 | Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, 2021 July 13, 23:169–201; author manuscript available in PMC 2021 July 14. |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-082120-022836 |
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这篇综述讨论如何把系统生物学的多组学、成像、代谢流、模型与合成生物学的遗传改造、群落构建和生物遏制结合起来,以理解并可预测地工程化微生物组。作者关心的核心问题是:在空间、时间、环境和相互作用高度复杂的微生物组中,哪些测量和模型能揭示控制点,哪些工程策略能调节群落组成、增强已有功能或安装新功能。文章把“理解”和“改造”视为循环促进的过程,而不是彼此分离的任务。
摘要提出微生物组的空间和时间变化受多重分子与生态因素影响,这既带来应用潜力也带来设计挑战。引言把研究目标概括为预测性调节组成、增强功能和安装新功能,并强调需要跨微生物学、生态学、医学、计算科学、数学和工程的整合方法。
本节从生态位、微生物相互作用、空间组织和生物膜等层面说明微生物组功能为何具有系统级涌现性质。环境中的碳源、能量、氧、pH 等定义可行生态位;物种间代谢互作、竞争、释放效应分子和占据空间决定群落行为。膜蛋白作为感知、运输和相互作用接口,也被作者单列强调。
作者提出自下而上与自上而下两类互补研究/工程路径。自下而上从已知成员、相互作用和模型构建可控系统,自上而下从复杂天然群落和过程出发识别关键规律。两者结合有助于在机制可解释性和真实复杂性之间取得平衡。
本大节系统介绍 metagenomics、microbiome imaging、metatranscriptomics、metaproteomics、metabolomics、metabolic flux analysis、stable isotope probing 和 microfluidics。每种工具回答不同问题:谁在那里、能做什么、正在做什么、产生/消耗什么、碳流向哪里,以及如何在单细胞或小群落尺度培养和筛选。
模型部分说明数学模型可用生态、热力学和生化原则连接微生物组输入与输出。ODE/gLV 与演化博弈适合种群动态和相互作用,GEM 和动态 FBA 适合代谢通量,机器学习可捕捉复杂输入输出映射,agent-based models 能模拟预设物理和代谢相互作用。作者也指出模型构建需要高质量数据、约束和验证。
工程部分讨论如何通过外部输入、菌株/群落添加、遗传工程、适应性实验室进化、HGT 和噬菌体工具改变微生物组。作者把这些方法放在从单基因到整群落的尺度图谱中,并强调复杂动态系统往往抗拒改变,因而工程化需要结合生态理解。
生物遏制部分指出所有含遗传工程生物的策略都需要限制其在指定环境和时间内生长。结论呼吁微生物组工程必须考虑环境和驻留群落之间复杂反馈,并把生态学、系统生物学与合成生物学进展转化为可解释、可预测和安全的设计。
文末总结和图表把工具、模型和应用以图示/表格方式归纳。图 1 梳理稳定性与多尺度因素,图 2 对齐多组学问题,图 3 比较建模尺度,图 4 总结工程工具;表 1 汇总数据库和工具,表 2 汇总微生物组生物技术公司和项目阶段。
图示信息:Figure 1. (a) Microbiome stability is a function of the community’s ability to recover its original functions following a disturbance. Functions could include the production of specific molecules over time. (b) Microbiome composition and function are shaped by multiple spatial and temporal factors. (i) At the broadest scale, availability of carbon and energy defines possible ecological niches within each environment. (ii) Within a community, interspecies interactions, including social behaviors, modulate how cells respond to their environment by modifying substrate availability (i.e., syntrophy or competition), releasing effectors, or occupying available space. Biofilms, in particular, provide resilience to specific environmental perturbations. (iii) Within each cell, function is constrained by individual metabolic capacity, which can be altered through genetic mutations or horizontal gene transfer. Membrane-bound proteins transduce signals and molecules from the environment to the cytosol as well as facilitate secretion of products from the cell to the environment. Figure adapted from images created with BioRender.com. Leggieri et al. Page 34 Annu Rev Biomed Eng. Author manuscript
论文结果 / 观点:该图把群落互作落实到代谢物、电子或营养物交换,是理解共培养功能涌现的关键证据。
研究意义 / 边界:这张图用于支持作者的概念框架或案例归纳;实际迁移到其他系统时,仍需结合成员来源、环境条件、稳定性和功能验证。
来源:nihms-1692056.pdf,PDF 第 34 页;图像来自 PDF 内部可匹配 Figure caption 的图像块。
图示信息:Figure 2. Different meta-omics tools are suited to answer different questions about microbiome composition and function. Amplicon metagenomics can reveal which organisms are present in a microbiome but not necessarily what each microbe’s role in the community is. Shotgun metagenomics elucidates which microbes are present in the community and what functions they have the capacity to perform. Metatranscriptomics and metaproteomics are necessary to uncover which functions are actually being performed in the community; assigning these transcripts and proteins to the microbes that produced them typically requires high-quality reference genomes or concurrent metagenomics analyses. Metabolomics and fluxomics quantify the chemical composition of the microbiome environment; however, linking metabolites to the microbes that produce or consume them is challenging, even with reference genomes. Linking microbiome composition and function is facilitated by integrating multiple meta-omics techniques, for example, concurrent shotgun metagenomics, metaproteomics, and metabolomics studies to assess which enzymes are producing an observed small molecule of interest and which microbes could produce th
论文结果 / 观点:该图把群落互作落实到代谢物、电子或营养物交换,是理解共培养功能涌现的关键证据。
研究意义 / 边界:这张图用于支持作者的概念框架或案例归纳;实际迁移到其他系统时,仍需结合成员来源、环境条件、稳定性和功能验证。
来源:nihms-1692056.pdf,PDF 第 35 页;图像来自 PDF 内部可匹配 Figure caption 的图像块。
图示信息:Figure 3. Microbiomes can be modeled on many scales, and the choice of modeling technique depends on the question at hand. At the most mechanistic level, molecular simulations may be used to model the thermodynamics and kinetics of individual enzymes identified through metaproteomics; however, these are not scalable to encompass the entire microbiome. GEMs enable prediction of the metabolic fluxes and end-product profiles within a microbiome and can offer mechanistic insight into metabolomic observations given high-quality genomic reconstructions and sufficient experimental model validation. Evolutionary game theory models and differential equation–based models are particularly useful when microbiome population dynamics are of the greatest interest, because detailed metabolic reconstructions are not needed for each organism to be modeled. AbMs offer flexibility in that the user may define which inputs and outputs to include in the model and are often the technique of choice when integrating both metabolic and physical interactions between microbes. Data- driven models, including emerging machine learning–based models, offer empirical predictions of microbiome behaviors under specif
论文结果 / 观点:该图把群落互作落实到代谢物、电子或营养物交换,是理解共培养功能涌现的关键证据。
研究意义 / 边界:这张图用于支持作者的概念框架或案例归纳;实际迁移到其他系统时,仍需结合成员来源、环境条件、稳定性和功能验证。
来源:nihms-1692056.pdf,PDF 第 36 页;图像来自 PDF 内部可匹配 Figure caption 的图像块。
图示信息:Figure 4. Microbiome engineering tools can be used to modify existing functions within the community or to introduce novel functions. These tools vary substantially in scale, from modification of the genome of a single organism to introduction of an entirely new engineered community into the microbiome. Highlighted methods include environmental perturbations such as the addition of a molecular antibiotic or a wild-type or engineered strain or community to an existing microbiome. More recently, genetic engineering efforts and adaptive laboratory evolution, including bacteriophage-assisted gene transfer, increasingly sophisticated synthetic biology tools, and targeted horizontal gene transfer, have gained traction. Leggieri et al. Page 37 Annu Rev Biomed Eng. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2021 July 14. Author Manuscript Author Manuscript Author Manuscript Author Manuscript
论文结果 / 观点:该图支撑“群落构建后必须验证功能”的观点,强调组学、示踪、功能测定或模型不能脱离实验验证。
研究意义 / 边界:这张图用于支持作者的概念框架或案例归纳;实际迁移到其他系统时,仍需结合成员来源、环境条件、稳定性和功能验证。
来源:nihms-1692056.pdf,PDF 第 37 页;图像来自 PDF 内部可匹配 Figure caption 的图像块。
经费 / 利益冲突:ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 显示多项资助:NSF MCB-1553721、DOE DE-SC0020420、Army Research Office W911NF-19-1-0010、California NanoSystems Institute Challenge Grant、DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute via DE-AC02-05CH11231、UC Santa Barbara Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship、NIH R35GM124774/R01EB030340、Army Research Office Young Investigator Award W911NF-17-1-0296、MURI W911NF-19-1-0269、DOE DE-FC02-07ER64494 等。DISCLOSURE STATEMENT 显示作者 unaware of affiliations, memberships, funding, or financial holdings that might be perceived as affecting objectivity.
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