Shaping bacterial gene expression by physiological and proteome allocation constraints

M Scott, T Hwa - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Networks of molecular regulators are often the primary objects of focus in the study of gene
regulation, with the machinery of protein synthesis tacitly relegated to the background …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding and application of Bacillus nitrogen regulation: a synthetic biology perspective

H He, Y Li, L Zhang, Z Ding, G Shi - Journal of Advanced Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Nitrogen sources play an essential role in maintaining the physiological and
biochemical activity of bacteria. Nitrogen metabolism, which is the core of microorganism …

Competency in navigating arbitrary spaces as an invariant for analyzing cognition in diverse embodiments

C Fields, M Levin - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
One of the most salient features of life is its capacity to handle novelty and namely to thrive
and adapt to new circumstances and changes in both the environment and internal …

Local flux coordination and global gene expression regulation in metabolic modeling

G Li, L Liu, W Du, H Cao - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-scale metabolic networks (GSMs) are fundamental systems biology
representations of a cell's entire set of stoichiometrically balanced reactions. However, such …

On the optimality of the enzyme–substrate relationship in bacteria

H Dourado, M Mori, T Hwa, MJ Lercher - PLoS biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Much recent progress has been made to understand the impact of proteome allocation on
bacterial growth; much less is known about the relationship between the abundances of the …

Trade‐offs between the instantaneous growth rate and long‐term fitness: consequences for microbial physiology and predictive computational models

FJ Bruggeman, B Teusink, R Steuer - Bioessays, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial systems biology has made enormous advances in relating microbial physiology to
the underlying biochemistry and molecular biology. By meticulously studying model …

Metabolomics and Microbial Metabolism: Toward a Systematic Understanding

D Holbrook-Smith, J Trouillon… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decades, our understanding of microbial metabolism has increased
dramatically. Metabolomics, a family of techniques that are used to measure the quantities of …

Yeast9: a consensus genome-scale metabolic model for S. cerevisiae curated by the community

C Zhang, BJ Sánchez, F Li, CWQ Eiden… - Molecular Systems …, 2024 - embopress.org
Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) can facilitate metabolism-focused multi-omics
integrative analysis. Since Yeast8, the yeast-GEM of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, published …

Evolution and stability of complex microbial communities driven by trade-offs

Y Huang, A Mukherjee, S Schink… - Molecular Systems …, 2024 - embopress.org
Microbial communities are ubiquitous in nature and play an important role in ecology and
human health. Cross-feeding is thought to be core to microbial communities, though it …

Proteome partitioning constraints in long-term laboratory evolution

M Mori, V Patsalo, C Euler, JR Williamson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Adaptive laboratory evolution experiments provide a controlled context in which the
dynamics of selection and adaptation can be followed in real-time at the single-nucleotide …