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Background   Streptomyces lividans  has demonstrated its value as an efficient host for protein production due to its ability to secrete functional proteins directly to the media. Secretory proteins that use the major Sec route need to be properly folded outside the cell, whereas secretory proteins using the Tat route appear outside the cell correctly folded. This feature makes the Tat system very attractive for the production of natural or engineered Tat secretory proteins.  S. lividans  cells are known to respond differently to overproduction and secretion of Tat versus Sec proteins. Increased understanding of the impact of protein secretion through the Tat route can be obtained by a deeper analysis of the metabolic impact associated with protein production, and its dependence on protein origin, composition, secretion mechanisms, growth phases and nutrients. Flux Balance Analysis of Genome-Scale Metabolic Network models provides a theoretical framework to investigate cell metabolism under different constraints.    Results  We have built new models for various  S. lividans  strains to better understand the mechanisms associated with overproduction of proteins secreted through the Tat route. We compare models of an  S. lividans  Tat-dependent agarase overproducing strain with those of the  S. lividans  wild-type, an  S. lividans  strain carrying the multi-copy plasmid vector and an α-amylase Sec-dependent overproducing strain. Using updated genomic, transcriptomic and experimental data we could extend existing  S. lividans  models and produce a new model which produces improved results largely extending the coverage of  S. lividans  strains, the number of genes and reactions being considered, the predictive behaviour and the dependence on specification of exchange constraints. Comparison of the optimized solutions obtained highlights numerous changes between Tat- and Sec-dependent protein secreting strains affecting the metabolism of carbon, amino acids, nucleotides, lipids and cofactors, and variability analysis predicts a large potential for protein overproduction.    Conclusions  This work provides a detailed look to metabolic changes associated to Tat-dependent protein secretion reproducing experimental observations and identifying changes that are specific to each secretory route, presenting a novel, improved, more accurate and strain-independent model of  S. lividans , thus opening the way for enhanced metabolic engineering of protein overproduction in  S. lividans .    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (10.1186/s12866-018-1199-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Modelling the metabolism of protein secretion through the Tat route in Streptomyces lividans