Sepideh Moshtagh

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How is it possible for a metabolic network to sustain growth while there is no reaction producing ATP?

I tried to expand the ecoli-core model attached below.I wanted to change it in a way that the organism consumes Co2 as carbon source and sulfate as energy source.To achieve this goal I removed the...

11 August 2014 7,735 1 View

During metabolism of thiobacilli, why does the network become infeasible when sulfur is added?

I am about to reconstruct a metabolic network for a chemelithiautotroph thiobacillus. It uses Co2 as the carbon source and Thiosulfate as the energy source. I have setted a central metabolsim for...

07 July 2014 9,073 4 View

Does anyone have any experiences in flux balance analysis of autotrophic metabolism?

I could not find any articles about this topic!

24 June 2014 233 3 View

Is there a way to separate Sulfur from the biomass of a sulfur oxidizing bacteria without damaging cell?

I want to measure the dry weight of a thiobacillus species which is neutrophil.So I need to separate the produced sulfur before measuring dry weight.

02 June 2014 2,267 5 View

How many flux rates should we have to perform a flux balance analysis of network consisting of 300 reactions?

I wonder if anyone can help me. I have created a network for a microorganism but don't know how to validate it as there is no experimental source for the organism. And in case of infeasibility I...

27 May 2014 6,232 3 View