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 …

Using genome-scale models to predict biological capabilities

EJ O'Brien, JM Monk, BO Palsson - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Constraint-based reconstruction and analysis (COBRA) methods at the genome scale have
been under development since the first whole-genome sequences appeared in the mid …

Improving the phenotype predictions of a yeast genome‐scale metabolic model by incorporating enzymatic constraints

BJ Sánchez, C Zhang, A Nilsson… - Molecular systems …, 2017 - embopress.org
Genome‐scale metabolic models (GEM s) are widely used to calculate metabolic
phenotypes. They rely on defining a set of constraints, the most common of which is that the …

Turnover number predictions for kinetically uncharacterized enzymes using machine and deep learning

A Kroll, Y Rousset, XP Hu, NA Liebrand… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The turnover number k cat, a measure of enzyme efficiency, is central to understanding
cellular physiology and resource allocation. As experimental k cat estimates are unavailable …

Metabolite concentrations, fluxes and free energies imply efficient enzyme usage

JO Park, SA Rubin, YF Xu, D Amador-Noguez… - Nature chemical …, 2016 - nature.com
In metabolism, available free energy is limited and must be divided across pathway steps to
maintain a negative Δ G throughout. For each reaction, Δ G is log proportional both to a …

Reconstruction, simulation and analysis of enzyme-constrained metabolic models using GECKO Toolbox 3.0

Y Chen, J Gustafsson, A Tafur Rangel, M Anton… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) are computational representations that enable
mathematical exploration of metabolic behaviors within cellular and environmental …

Mitochondrial ATP generation is more proteome efficient than glycolysis

Y Shen, HV Dinh, ER Cruz, Z Chen… - Nature chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Metabolic efficiency profoundly influences organismal fitness. Nonphotosynthetic organisms,
from yeast to mammals, derive usable energy primarily through glycolysis and respiration …

Constraining the metabolic genotype–phenotype relationship using a phylogeny of in silico methods

NE Lewis, H Nagarajan, BO Palsson - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2012 - nature.com
Reconstructed microbial metabolic networks facilitate a mechanistic description of the
genotype–phenotype relationship through the deployment of constraint-based …

Absolute metabolite concentrations and implied enzyme active site occupancy in Escherichia coli

BD Bennett, EH Kimball, M Gao, R Osterhout… - Nature chemical …, 2009 - nature.com
Absolute metabolite concentrations are critical to a quantitative understanding of cellular
metabolism, as concentrations impact both the free energies and rates of metabolic …

Genome‐scale models of metabolism and gene expression extend and refine growth phenotype prediction

EJ O'brien, JA Lerman, RL Chang… - Molecular systems …, 2013 - embopress.org
Growth is a fundamental process of life. Growth requirements are well‐characterized
experimentally for many microbes; however, we lack a unified model for cellular growth …