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A workflow for annotating the knowledge gaps in metabolic reconstructions using known and hypothetical reactions

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Jasmin Maria Hafner, Homa Mohammadi Peyhani, Evangelia Vagena, Noushin Hadadi, Anush Chiappino-Pepe

Advances in medicine and biotechnology rely on a deep understanding of biological processes. Despite the increasingly available types and amounts of omics data, significant knowledge gaps remain, with current approaches to identify and curate missing annot ...

National Academy of Sciences2022

Constraint-based metabolic control analysis for rational strain engineering

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Ljubisa Miskovic, Meriç Ataman, Tuure Eelis Hameri, Sofia Tsouka

The advancements in genome editing techniques over the past years have rekindled interest in rational metabolic engineering strategies. While Metabolic Control Analysis (MCA) is a well-established method for quantifying the effects of metabolic engineering ...

2021

Analysis of human metabolism by reducing the complexity of the genome-scale models using redHUMAN

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Maria Masid Barcon

Altered metabolism is associated with many human diseases. Human genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) were reconstructed within systems biology to study the biochemistry occurring in human cells. However, the complexity of these networks hinders a consiste ...

Nature Research2020

MEMOTE for standardized genome-scale metabolic model testing

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Georgios Fengos, Cheng Zhang, Jens Nielsen, Ali Kaafarani

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Modeling metabolic networks of individual bacterial agents in heterogeneous and dynamic soil habitats (IndiMeSH)

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Dani Or

Natural soil is characterized as a complex habitat with patchy hydrated islands and spatially variable nutrients that is in a constant state of change due to wetting-drying dynamics. Soil microbial activity is often concentrated in sparsely distributed hot ...

2019

Kinetic models of metabolism that consider alternative steady-state solutions of intracellular fluxes and concentrations

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Ljubisa Miskovic, Meriç Ataman, Georgios Fengos, Tuure Eelis Hameri

Large-scale kinetic models are used for designing, predicting, and understanding the metabolic responses of living cells. Kinetic models are particularly attractive for the biosynthesis of target molecules in cells as they are typically better than other t ...

2019

Discovery and Evaluation of Biosynthetic Pathways for the Production of Five Methyl Ethyl Ketone Precursors

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Milenko Tokic, Ljubisa Miskovic, Meriç Ataman, Noushin Hadadi

The limited supply of fossil fuels and the establishment of new environmental policies shifted research in industry and academia towards sustainable production of the 2nd generation of biofuels, with Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK) being one promising fuel candi ...

2018

pyTFA and matTFA: a Python package and a Matlab toolbox for Thermodynamics-based Flux Analysis

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Georgios Fengos, Keng Cher Soh, Pierre Guy Rémy Salvy

Summary: pyTFA and matTFA are the first published implementations of the original TFA paper. Specifically, they include explicit formulation of Gibbs energies and metabolite concentrations, which enables straightforward integration of metabolite concentrat ...

2018

Exploring biochemical pathways for mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) synthesis from synthesis gas

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Noushin Hadadi

Mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) is an important petrochemical with widespread use in numerous consumer products. The current industrial MEG-production process relies on non-renewable fossil fuel-based feedstocks, such as petroleum, natural gas, and naphtha; hen ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2017

Bioenergetics-based modeling of Plasmodium falciparum metabolism reveals its essential genes, nutritional requirements, and thermodynamic bottlenecks

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Stepan Tymoshenko, Dominique Soldati-Favre, Anush Chiappino-Pepe

Novel antimalarial therapies are urgently needed for the fight against drug-resistant para- sites. The metabolism of malaria parasites in infected cells is an attractive source of drug targets but is rather complex. Computational methods can handle this co ...

Public Library of Science2017