Abstract
In the past decades, metabolic engineering has received great attention from different sectors of science due to its important role in enhancing the over expression of the target phenotype by manipulating the metabolic pathway. The advent of metabolic engineering has further laid the foundation for computational biology, leading to the development of computational approaches for suggesting genetic manipulation. Previously, conventional methods have been used to enhance the production of lactate and succinate in E. coli. However, these products are always far below their theoretical maxima. In this research, a hybrid algorithm is developed to seek optimal solutions in order to increase the overproduction of lactate and succinate by gene knockout in E. coli. The hybrid algorithm employed the Simple Constrained Artificial Bee Colony (SCABC) algorithm, using swarm intelligence as an optimization algorithm to optimize the objective function, where lactate and succinate productions are maximized by simulating gene knockout in E. coli. In addition, Flux Balance Analysis (FBA) is used as a fitness function in the SCABC algorithm to assess the growth rate of E. coli and the productivity of lactate and succinate. As a result of the research, the gene knockout list which induced the highest production of lactate and succinate is obtained.
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We would like to thank Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia for supporting this research by the Fundamental Research Grant Schemes (grant number: R.J130000.7828.4F886 and R.J130000.7828.4F720). We would also like to thank Universiti Malaysia Pahang for sponsoring this research via the RDU Grant (Grant Number: RDU180307).
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Hon, M.K. et al. (2019). A Hybrid of Simple Constrained Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm and Flux Balance Analysis for Enhancing Lactate and Succinate in Escherichia Coli. In: Fdez-Riverola, F., Mohamad, M., Rocha, M., De Paz, J., González, P. (eds) Practical Applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 12th International Conference. PACBB2018 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 803. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98702-6_1
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