Enhanced dynamic flux variability analysis for improving growth and production rate in microbial strains

Metabolic engineering is highly demanded currently for the production of various useful compounds such as succinate and lactate that are very useful in food, pharmaceutical, fossil fuels, and energy industries. Gene or reaction deletion known as knockout is one of the strategies used in in silico me...

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Main Author: Khairil Anuar, Mohammad Fahmi Arieef
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Language:English
Published: 2018
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spelling my-utm-ep.816092019-09-10T01:49:57Z Enhanced dynamic flux variability analysis for improving growth and production rate in microbial strains 2018 Khairil Anuar, Mohammad Fahmi Arieef QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Metabolic engineering is highly demanded currently for the production of various useful compounds such as succinate and lactate that are very useful in food, pharmaceutical, fossil fuels, and energy industries. Gene or reaction deletion known as knockout is one of the strategies used in in silico metabolic engineering to change the metabolism of the chosen microbial cells to obtain the desired phenotypes. However, the size and complexity of the metabolic network are a challenge in determining the near-optimal set of genes to be knocked out in the metabolism due to the presence of competing pathway that interrupts the high production of desired metabolite, leading to low production rate and growth rate of the required microorganisms. In addition, the inefficiency of existing algorithms in reconstructing high growth rate and production rate becomes one of the issues to be solved. Therefore, this research proposes Dynamic Flux Variability Analysis (DFVA) algorithm to identify the best knockout reaction combination to improve the production of desired metabolites in microorganisms. Based on the experimental results, DFVA shows an improvement of growth rate of succinate and lactate by 12.06% and 47.16% respectively in E. coli and by 4.62% and 47.98% respectively in S. Cerevisae. Suggested reactions to be knocked out to improve the production of succinate and lactate have been identified and validated through the biological database. 2018 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81609/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81609/1/MohammadFahmiArieefMFC2018.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:119432 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Computing
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
Khairil Anuar, Mohammad Fahmi Arieef
Enhanced dynamic flux variability analysis for improving growth and production rate in microbial strains
description Metabolic engineering is highly demanded currently for the production of various useful compounds such as succinate and lactate that are very useful in food, pharmaceutical, fossil fuels, and energy industries. Gene or reaction deletion known as knockout is one of the strategies used in in silico metabolic engineering to change the metabolism of the chosen microbial cells to obtain the desired phenotypes. However, the size and complexity of the metabolic network are a challenge in determining the near-optimal set of genes to be knocked out in the metabolism due to the presence of competing pathway that interrupts the high production of desired metabolite, leading to low production rate and growth rate of the required microorganisms. In addition, the inefficiency of existing algorithms in reconstructing high growth rate and production rate becomes one of the issues to be solved. Therefore, this research proposes Dynamic Flux Variability Analysis (DFVA) algorithm to identify the best knockout reaction combination to improve the production of desired metabolites in microorganisms. Based on the experimental results, DFVA shows an improvement of growth rate of succinate and lactate by 12.06% and 47.16% respectively in E. coli and by 4.62% and 47.98% respectively in S. Cerevisae. Suggested reactions to be knocked out to improve the production of succinate and lactate have been identified and validated through the biological database.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Khairil Anuar, Mohammad Fahmi Arieef
author_facet Khairil Anuar, Mohammad Fahmi Arieef
author_sort Khairil Anuar, Mohammad Fahmi Arieef
title Enhanced dynamic flux variability analysis for improving growth and production rate in microbial strains
title_short Enhanced dynamic flux variability analysis for improving growth and production rate in microbial strains
title_full Enhanced dynamic flux variability analysis for improving growth and production rate in microbial strains
title_fullStr Enhanced dynamic flux variability analysis for improving growth and production rate in microbial strains
title_full_unstemmed Enhanced dynamic flux variability analysis for improving growth and production rate in microbial strains
title_sort enhanced dynamic flux variability analysis for improving growth and production rate in microbial strains
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
granting_department Computing
publishDate 2018
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81609/1/MohammadFahmiArieefMFC2018.pdf
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