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Background   Clostridium acetobutylicum  is an anaerobic bacterium which is known for its solvent-producing capabilities, namely regarding the bulk chemicals acetone and butanol, the latter being a highly efficient biofuel. For butanol production by  C. acetobutylicum  to be optimized and exploited on an industrial scale, the effect of pH-induced gene regulation on solvent production by  C. acetobutylicum  in continuous culture must be understood as fully as possible.    Results  We present an ordinary differential equation model combining the metabolic network governing solvent production with regulation at the genetic level of the enzymes required for this process. Parameterizing the model with experimental data from continuous culture, we demonstrate the influence of pH upon fermentation products: at high pH (pH 5.7) acids are the dominant product while at low pH (pH 4.5) this switches to solvents. Through steady-state analyses of the model we focus our investigations on how alteration in gene expression of  C. acetobutylicum  could be exploited to increase butanol yield in a continuous culture fermentation.    Conclusions  Incorporating gene regulation into the model of solvent production by  C. acetobutylicum  enables an accurate representation of the pH-induced switch to solvent production to be obtained and theoretical investigations of possible synthetic-biology approaches to be pursued. Steady-state analyses suggest that, to increase butanol yield, alterations in the expression of single solvent-associated genes are insufficient; a more complex approach targeting two or more genes is required.

bmc systems biology

A systems biology approach to investigate the effect of pH-induced gene regulation on solvent production by Clostridium acetobutylicum in continuous culture