Progress curve XDH

The currently used mathematical models for medical treatment at the individual or population level are largely phenomenological and have limited quantitative predictive power. It is usually not possible to predict the effect of an intervention in a specific process or to predict the effect of a pharmaceutical drug since the step or enzyme on which the intervention/drug works is not explicit in the model.

Taking HIV pathogenesis as an example, the immune system response, vaccine exposure, and drug ...

The goal of the project is to establish a new biotechnological platform for the production of hydroxy-amino acids, since the current production of these important building blocks is very expensive. Enzyme engineering, systems biotechnology and metabolic engineering will be used in a synthetic biology approach.

The oxidative Weimberg pathway for the five-step pentose degradation to α ketoglutarate from Caulobacter crescentus is a key route for sustainable bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass to added-value products and biofuels. Here, we developed a novel iterative approach involving initial rate kinetics, progress curves, and enzyme cascades, with high resolution NMR analysis of intermediate dynamics, and multiple cycles of kinetic modelling analyses to construct and validate a quantitative model ...

Progress curves for the purified Caulinobacter crescentus Weimberg pathway enzymes. Each reaction is followed up to completion and then the next enzyme in the pathway is added, i.e. XDH-XLA-XAD-KDXD and finally KGSADH

Data files for the conversion of XYL to KG, via the sequential addition of the Caulobacter crescentus Weimberg pathway enzymes, XDH, XLA, XAD, KDXD, KGSADH.

Model for the Caulobacter crescentus Weimberg pathway, describing the conversion of Xyl to KG upon sequential adition of purified enzymes. If the Mathematica notebook is downloaded and the data file is downloaded in the same directory, then the notebook can be evaluated, and the figure in the manuscript for the progress curves will be reproduced.

Model for the Caulobacter crescentus Weimberg pathway, describing the conversion of Xyl to KG, with sequential addition of purified enzymes.