Assays

Inhibition of lactate flux glycolytic inhibitors

Determinations of parasite volumes in a well-synchronised, infected culture treated with a cytosolic stain, using fluorescence microscopy. Diameters used to calculate parasite volume, assuming a spherical parasite cell.

Here we will use JERM templates with embedded ontologies to describe and annotate example data

SED-ML: https://jjj.bio.vu.nl/models/experiments/vanniekerk2023_fig4/simulate

Prediction of patient urinary acylcarnitine under metabolic decompensation. Generates Fig. 3, Table 1, and Table S2 in the associated publication.

Download and unzip "Model_notebooks.rar" and run "7, Fig3+4+S1+S3-ACADDs-[needs-(1)]-20221109.nb" after running "1, generate-model-20221109.nb"

Calculation of control and response coefficients. Generates Fig. 5, Fig. S4, and Table S2 in the associated publication.

Download "Model_notebooks.rar", unzip, and run: "8, Fig5-control-coefficients-[needs-(1)]-20221109.nb", "9, TableS2-response-coefficients-[needs-(1)]-20230302.nb", and "15, FigS4-control-coefficients-low-AcetylCoA-[needs-(1)]-20221109.nb" after running "1, generate-model-20221109.nb"

Creation of personalised models of control, symptomatic MCADD, asymptomatic MCADD, and early diagnosis MCADD individuals using fibroblast proteomics to adjust model Vmaxes. Generates Fig. 7 and S7.

Download and unzip "Model_notebooks.rar" and run "13, Fig7-personalised-models-[needs-(1-and-12)]-20221109.nb" after running "1, generate-model-20221109.nb" and "12, Fig7-S7-preprocessing-[needs-(1)-]-20221109.nb".

Validation of model's ability to predict oxygen consumption flux as measured usign permeabilised cells in an Oroboros Oxygraph. Generates Fig. 2A in the associated publication.

Download "Model_notebooks.rar", unzip, and run: "2, generate-model-Oroboros-validation-[needs(1)]-20221109.nb" and "4, Fig2A-Oroboros-simulation-data-[needs-(1-2-and-3)]-20221109.nb" after running "1, generate-model-20221109.nb"

Validation of model's ability to predict whole-body ketogeneic flux as extracted form Fletcher et al. (2019). Generates Fig. 2B in the associated publication.

Download "Model_notebooks.rar", unzip, and run: "2, generate-model-Oroboros-validation-[needs(1)]-20221109.nb" and "5, Fig2B-ketogenesis-validation-[needs-(1)]-20221109.nb" after running "1, generate-model-20221109.nb"

Testing the model's ability to predict palmitoyl-CoA and octanoyl-CoA dehydrogenation in human liver lysate, with and without anti-MCAD and anti-VLCAD antibodies. Generates Fig. 2 C and D in the associated publication. Data from Aoyama et al. (1995).

Downoad and unzip "Model_notebooks.rar" and run "6, Fig2C+D-ACAD-partitioning-validation-[needs-(1)]-20221109.nb" after running "1, generate-model-20221109.nb".

Prepared multimeric tubulin protein receptors for docking studies, generated by alignment of two identical models of alpha-tubulin on alpha-tubulin chains of two neighboring protofilaments.

Docking results of trifluraline and dinitroaniline-etherphospholipid hybrids against different kinetoplastid alpha-tubulin receptors with an induced fit docking routine. The docking protocol involves an initial crude ligand placement step, subsequent receptor optimization in response to ligand binding, and another docking step into the optimized receptor.