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<a href="http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v28/n3/abs/nbt.1614.html">flux balance analysis</a>. The approach initially chosen was simply to fix the CO2 uptake flux above that achieved in the optimal FBA solution, and examining the effect on the growth rate (figure 1). | <a href="http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v28/n3/abs/nbt.1614.html">flux balance analysis</a>. The approach initially chosen was simply to fix the CO2 uptake flux above that achieved in the optimal FBA solution, and examining the effect on the growth rate (figure 1). | ||
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<p style="text-align:center; color:black; "><b> Figure 2:</b> CO2 uptake as a function of glucose oxidase flux in an optimal FBA solution.</p> </div> | <p style="text-align:center; color:black; "><b> Figure 2:</b> CO2 uptake as a function of glucose oxidase flux in an optimal FBA solution.</p> </div> | ||
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Flux balance analysis of the impact of increasing CO2-uptake and introducing Glucose Oxidase into Synechocystis sp. PCC6803
To aid in the identification of possible target genes for increasing CO2 uptake in Synechocystis, the most recent model of the metabolic network in Synechocystis was acquired and analyzed with flux balance analysis. The approach initially chosen was simply to fix the CO2 uptake flux above that achieved in the optimal FBA solution, and examining the effect on the growth rate (figure 1).
The growth rate increases from 0 as the CO2 uptake flux is increased from zero to its optimal value (1.19), and decreases after this point. The decrease in growth rate after this optimal CO2 uptake flux is linear with a slope of -0.0083. As the growth rate decreases with increasing CO2 fixaton after this point, this means that any metabolic reaction added to the model that increases the CO2 fixation without also increasing the growth rate, will reduce the growth rate by a minimum of -0.0089/h per unit of flux the CO2 uptake is increased by.
The glucose oxidase gene was added to the model in order to examine its effect on cellular growth. This was done by implementing the reaction:
Since the metabolite D-glucono-1,5-lactone was not present in the original metabolic model, this issue was addressed by the addition of a passive export reaction. The flux through this reaction was then increased from 0, and the CO2 uptake predicted by the FBA solution recorded (figure 2)
The FBA solution then predicts that the CO2 uptake increases as the glucose oxidase flux increases. In accordance with the previous observation that the minimum reduction in growth rate would be -0.0089/h per per unit of the flux the CO2 uptake was increased by, the reduction in growth rate was found to be -0.0533 per unit of CO2 uptake flux.
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