Team:Toulouse/Modeling

iGEM Toulouse 2015

Modeling


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Metabolic networks

As it has been presented, the aim of our project is to create a biological system able to produce two molecules: butyric acid and formic acid.
To construct our biological system, we have to introduce a new balance between all metabolic pathways already present in E.Coli. Indeed, we want to optimize butyrate and formate production in our bacteria with the new pathways we created for ApiColi. Below are represented all metabolic pathways and metabolites known to date in Escherichia coli K12 MG1655 (most known model). It was obtained from the KEGG database [1].
The first part of this work is to determine the metabolic pathways in which our molecules of interest are taking part, in order to well immerse ourselves in their roles and effects.

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References


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