Neisseria meningitidis: Biology, Microbiology, and Epidemiology

NG Rouphael, DS Stephens - Neisseria meningitidis: advanced methods …, 2012 - Springer
Neisseria meningitidis (the meningococcus) causes significant morbidity and mortality in
children and young adults worldwide through epidemic or sporadic meningitis and/or …

Multiscale cancer modeling

TS Deisboeck, Z Wang, P Macklin… - Annual review of …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Simulating cancer behavior across multiple biological scales in space and time, ie,
multiscale cancer modeling, is increasingly being recognized as a powerful tool to refine …

Costless metabolic secretions as drivers of interspecies interactions in microbial ecosystems

AR Pacheco, M Moel, D Segrè - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Metabolic exchange mediates interactions among microbes, helping explain diversity in
microbial communities. As these interactions often involve a fitness cost, it is unclear how …

A protocol for generating a high-quality genome-scale metabolic reconstruction

I Thiele, BØ Palsson - Nature protocols, 2010 - nature.com
Network reconstructions are a common denominator in systems biology. Bottom–up
metabolic network reconstructions have been developed over the last 10 years. These …

The effects of alternate optimal solutions in constraint-based genome-scale metabolic models

R Mahadevan, CH Schilling - Metabolic engineering, 2003 - Elsevier
Genome-scale constraint-based models of several organisms have now been constructed
and are being used for model driven research. A key issue that may arise in the use of such …

Optknock: a bilevel programming framework for identifying gene knockout strategies for microbial strain optimization

AP Burgard, P Pharkya… - Biotechnology and …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of genome‐scale models of metabolism has laid the foundation for the
development of computational procedures for suggesting genetic manipulations that lead to …

The RAVEN Toolbox and Its Use for Generating a Genome-scale Metabolic Model for Penicillium chrysogenum

R Agren, L Liu, S Shoaie, W Vongsangnak… - PLoS computational …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
We present the RAVEN (R econstruction, A nalysis and V isualization of M e tabolic N
etworks) Toolbox: a software suite that allows for semi-automated reconstruction of genome …

Predicting selective drug targets in cancer through metabolic networks

O Folger, L Jerby, C Frezza, E Gottlieb… - Molecular systems …, 2011 - embopress.org
The interest in studying metabolic alterations in cancer and their potential role as novel
targets for therapy has been rejuvenated in recent years. Here, we report the development of …

Multidimensional optimality of microbial metabolism

R Schuetz, N Zamboni, M Zampieri, M Heinemann… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Although the network topology of metabolism is well known, understanding the principles
that govern the distribution of fluxes through metabolism lags behind. Experimentally, these …

Haem oxygenase is synthetically lethal with the tumour suppressor fumarate hydratase

C Frezza, L Zheng, O Folger, KN Rajagopalan… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Fumarate hydratase (FH) is an enzyme of the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) that
catalyses the hydration of fumarate into malate. Germline mutations of FH are responsible …