The present invention aims to provide a method for constructing metabolically modified microbial strains that produce useful compounds in high quantities, and to provide metabolically modified microbial strains that produce useful compounds in high quantities. [Solution] The present invention relates to a method for constructing a metabolically modified microbial strain that produces useful compounds at high levels, comprising: (A) a step of constructing a base strain by metabolically modifying a parent strain; (B) a step of preparing unit
DNA cassettes in which a
promoter for high expression and a terminator sequence are linked to the
DNA encoding each
enzyme of a group of enzymes that constitute the
biosynthesis pathway of the useful compound functionally within the
cell, and unit
DNA cassettes in which a
promoter for low expression (or without a
promoter) and a terminator sequence are linked to the
DNA encoding each
enzyme, and then performing
gene assembly using the OGAB method to construct a
plasmid library; (C) the above The method for constructing metabolically modified microbial strains includes the steps of: introducing the constructed
plasmid library into the base strain and measuring the production amount of the useful compound of each strain; analyzing the sequence information of the plasmids introduced into each strain obtained in steps (D) and (C); performing
statistical analysis or
machine learning that correlates the production amount of the useful compound of each strain obtained in steps (E) and (C) with the sequence information of the plasmids obtained in step (D) to identify useful genes that contribute to the production of the useful compound; and creating a strain in which the useful genes that contribute to the production of the useful compound identified in steps (F) and (E) have been recombinant.