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As suas aplicações são vastas passando pela produção de proteínas recombinantes, vacinas e VLPs e, mais recentemente, vectores para terapia génica. Não obstante, o nível de conhecimento fundamental sobre este sistema é ainda reduzido. Neste trabalho, propusemo-nos a potenciar a capacidade produtiva do sistema BEVS-IC, explorando as alterações metabólicas que decorrem da interacção vírus-célula no cenário pós-infecção. Foram investigados os passos limitantes do metabolismo celular e respectivas enzimas reguladoras. Os resultados obtidos foram complementados com dados de análise de fluxo metabólico, numa abordagem integrativa de Biologia de Sistemas. Dois pontos-chave no controlo do metabolismo oxidativo foram identificados: a regulação do fluxo glicolítico é exercida pela hexokinase, enquanto que a isocitrato desidrogenase é responsável pela actividade do ciclo dos ATCs. Estas enzimas foram portanto identificadas como alvos promissores para engenharia metabólica. 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Nevertheless, a more fundamental understanding of this system is still needed. In the work herein presented we intended to improve the productivity of the IC-BEVS, by exploiting the major metabolic alterations that take place during the post-infection scenario as the result of the interactions between the host cell and the virus itself. Within this scope, the main metabolic pathways and the flux controlling enzymes involved were investigated. The results obtained were complemented with metabolic flux analysis data, with the main aim of integrating them in a Systems Biology perspective. Two key-points regarding the oxidative metabolism were identified: hexokinase is responsible for the regulation of the glycolytic flux, and isocitrate dehydrogenase limits the flux through the TCA cycle. Therefore both enzymes were selected as promising targets for metabolic engineering. The activities of glutamate dehydrogenases increased after infection with baculovirus, and this happened within the maintenance of the cellular energetic state to guarantee better conditions for viral replication. This result demonstrates the capacity of the virus to manipulate the cellular metabolism for its own profit, providing better conditions for viral replication. This work allowed us to unveil the metabolic regulatory key-points of Sf9 cells. From a fundamental point of view, the most important metabolic scenarios that occur during the post-infection period were addressed. 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