Addressing uncertainty in genome-scale metabolic model reconstruction and analysis

DB Bernstein, S Sulheim, E Almaas, D Segrè - Genome Biology, 2021 - Springer
The reconstruction and analysis of genome-scale metabolic models constitutes a powerful
systems biology approach, with applications ranging from basic understanding of genotype …

A white-box machine learning approach for revealing antibiotic mechanisms of action

JH Yang, SN Wright, M Hamblin, D McCloskey… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Current machine learning techniques enable robust association of biological signals with
measured phenotypes, but these approaches are incapable of identifying causal …

Metabolic models of human gut microbiota: Advances and challenges

DR Garza, D Gonze, H Zafeiropoulos, B Liu, K Faust - Cell systems, 2023 - cell.com
The human gut is a complex ecosystem consisting of hundreds of microbial species
interacting with each other and with the human host. Mathematical models of the gut …

Harnessing the intracellular triacylglycerols for titer improvement of polyketides in Streptomyces

W Wang, S Li, Z Li, J Zhang, K Fan, G Tan, G Ai… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Pharmaceutically important polyketides such as avermectin are mainly produced as
secondary metabolites during the stationary phase of growth of Streptomyces species in …

Stable diverse food webs become more common when interactions are more biologically constrained

G Gellner, K McCann… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Ecologists have long sought to understand how diversity and structure mediate the stability
of whole ecosystems. For high-diversity food webs, the interactions between species are …

SteadyCom: predicting microbial abundances while ensuring community stability

SHJ Chan, MN Simons… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Genome-scale metabolic modeling has become widespread for analyzing microbial
metabolism. Extending this established paradigm to more complex microbial communities is …

The ETFL formulation allows multi-omics integration in thermodynamics-compliant metabolism and expression models

P Salvy, V Hatzimanikatis - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Systems biology has long been interested in models capturing both metabolism
and expression in a cell. We propose here an implementation of the metabolism and …

Functional cooperation of the glycine synthase-reductase and Wood–Ljungdahl pathways for autotrophic growth of Clostridium drakei

Y Song, JS Lee, J Shin, GM Lee, S **… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Among CO2-fixing metabolic pathways in nature, the linear Wood–Ljungdahl pathway
(WLP) in phylogenetically diverse acetate-forming acetogens comprises the most …

Synthetic microbial communities of heterotrophs and phototrophs facilitate sustainable growth

C Zuñiga, T Li, MT Guarnieri, JP Jenkins, CT Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Microbial communities comprised of phototrophs and heterotrophs hold great promise for
sustainable biotechnology. Successful application of these communities relies on the …

Flux sampling is a powerful tool to study metabolism under changing environmental conditions

HA Herrmann, BC Dyson, L Vass… - NPJ systems biology …, 2019 - nature.com
The development of high-throughput 'omic techniques has sparked a rising interest in
genome-scale metabolic models, with applications ranging from disease diagnostics to crop …