Current status and applications of genome-scale metabolic models

C Gu, GB Kim, WJ Kim, HU Kim, SY Lee - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) computationally describe gene-protein-reaction
associations for entire metabolic genes in an organism, and can be simulated to predict …

Regulation of glycolytic flux and overflow metabolism depending on the source of energy generation for energy demand

K Shimizu, Y Matsuoka - Biotechnology advances, 2019 - Elsevier
Overflow metabolism is a common phenomenon observed at higher glycolytic flux in many
bacteria, yeast (known as Crabtree effect), and mammalian cells including cancer cells …

Integration of enzymatic data in Bacillus subtilis genome-scale metabolic model improves phenotype predictions and enables in silico design of poly-γ-glutamic acid …

I Massaiu, L Pasotti, N Sonnenschein, E Rama… - Microbial cell …, 2019 - Springer
Background Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) allow predicting metabolic
phenotypes from limited data on uptake and secretion fluxes by defining the space of all the …

Automated generation of bacterial resource allocation models

A Bulović, S Fischer, M Dinh, F Golib… - Metabolic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Resource Balance Analysis (RBA) is a computational method based on resource
allocation, which performs accurate quantitative predictions of whole-cell states (ie growth …

DynamicME: dynamic simulation and refinement of integrated models of metabolism and protein expression

L Yang, A Ebrahim, CJ Lloyd, MA Saunders… - BMC systems …, 2019 - Springer
Background Genome-scale models of metabolism and macromolecular expression (ME
models) enable systems-level computation of proteome allocation coupled to metabolic …

The number of active metabolic pathways is bounded by the number of cellular constraints at maximal metabolic rates

DH De Groot, C Van Boxtel, R Planqué… - PLOS Computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Growth rate is a near-universal selective pressure across microbial species. High growth
rates require hundreds of metabolic enzymes, each with different nonlinear kinetics, to be …

Modelling microbial communities using biochemical resource allocation analysis

S Sharma, R Steuer - Journal of The Royal Society …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
To understand the functioning and dynamics of microbial communities is a fundamental
challenge in current biology. To tackle this challenge, the construction of computational …

Quantification of proteomic and metabolic burdens predicts growth retardation and overflow metabolism in recombinant Escherichia coli

H Zeng, A Yang - Biotechnology and bioengineering, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Escherichia coli has been the host organism most frequently investigated for efficient
recombinant protein production. However, the production of a foreign protein in recombinant …

Differential expression of a prophage-encoded glycocin and its immunity protein suggests a mutualistic strategy of a phage and its host

EL Denham, S Piersma, M Rinket, E Reilman… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Sublancin 168 is a highly potent and stable antimicrobial peptide secreted by the Gram-
positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Production of sublancin gives B. subtilis a major …

RBA for eukaryotic cells: foundations and theoretical developments

A Goelzer, V Fromion - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Resource allocation models were recently identified as new ways to investigate cell design
principles. In particular, the Resource Balance Analysis (RBA) framework is the first …