Progress curve analysis combined

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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

Conversion of XYL to KG by sequential addition of Weimberg pathway enzymes of Caulobacter crescentus, measured in NMR. https://jjj.bio.vu.nl/models/experiments/shen2020_fig2c/simulate