Applications of machine learning in human microbiome studies: a review on feature selection, biomarker identification, disease prediction and treatment

LJ Marcos-Zambrano… - Frontiers in …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
The number of microbiome-related studies has notably increased the availability of data on
human microbiome composition and function. These studies provide the essential material …

Bacterial biopolymers: from pathogenesis to advanced materials

MF Moradali, BHA Rehm - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020‏ - nature.com
Bacteria are prime cell factories that can efficiently convert carbon and nitrogen sources into
a large diversity of intracellular and extracellular biopolymers, such as polysaccharides …

Genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of 7,302 human microorganisms for personalized medicine

A Heinken, J Hertel, G Acharya, DA Ravcheev… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The human microbiome influences the efficacy and safety of a wide variety of commonly
prescribed drugs. Designing precision medicine approaches that incorporate microbial …

The gut microbial metabolite formate exacerbates colorectal cancer progression

D Ternes, M Tsenkova, VI Pozdeev, M Meyers… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
The gut microbiome is a key player in the immunomodulatory and protumorigenic
microenvironment during colorectal cancer (CRC), as different gut-derived bacteria can …

Metabolic modeling of single Th17 cells reveals regulators of autoimmunity

A Wagner, C Wang, J Fessler, D DeTomaso… - Cell, 2021‏ - cell.com
Metabolism is a major regulator of immune cell function, but it remains difficult to study the
metabolic status of individual cells. Here, we present Compass, an algorithm to characterize …

Engineering natural microbiomes toward enhanced bioremediation by microbiome modeling

Z Ruan, K Chen, W Cao, L Meng, B Yang, M Xu… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Engineering natural microbiomes for biotechnological applications remains challenging, as
metabolic interactions within microbiomes are largely unknown, and practical principles and …

Deep learning-based kcat prediction enables improved enzyme-constrained model reconstruction

F Li, L Yuan, H Lu, G Li, Y Chen, MKM Engqvist… - Nature Catalysis, 2022‏ - nature.com
Enzyme turnover numbers (k cat) are key to understanding cellular metabolism, proteome
allocation and physiological diversity, but experimentally measured k cat data are sparse …

Engineering cofactor supply and recycling to drive phenolic acid biosynthesis in yeast

R Chen, J Gao, W Yu, X Chen, X Zhai, Y Chen… - Nature Chemical …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Advances in synthetic biology enable microbial hosts to synthesize valuable natural
products in an efficient, cost-competitive and safe manner. However, current engineering …

[HTML][HTML] Towards bio-upcycling of polyethylene terephthalate

T Tiso, T Narancic, R Wei, E Pollet, N Beagan… - Metabolic …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Over 359 million tons of plastics were produced worldwide in 2018, with significant growth
expected in the near future, resulting in the global challenge of end-of-life management. The …

MEMOTE for standardized genome-scale metabolic model testing

C Lieven, ME Beber, BG Olivier, FT Bergmann… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
To the Editor—Reconstructing metabolic reaction networks enables the development of
testable hypotheses of an organism's metabolism under different conditions 1. State-of-the …