Genome-scale metabolic modeling to provide insight into the production of storage compounds during feast-famine cycles of activated sludge

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 469-476

  Tajparast, Mohammad ^a   Frigon, Dominic ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomaterials; Escherichia coli strain K 12; Genome scale flux balance analysis; Rhodococcus jostii RHA1; Storage metabolism; Wastewater treatment operation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE TREATMENT; BIO-PLASTICS; E. COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K-12; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FEAST FAMINES; FLUX BALANCE ANALYSIS; GENOME-SCALE METABOLIC MODELING; GENOME-SCALE METABOLIC MODELS; GROWTH CYCLE; HYDROXYBUTYRATE; METABOLIC MODELS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPERATIONAL ISSUES; PHB ACCUMULATION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PRODUCTION OF; RHODOCOCCUS; SOLE CARBON SOURCE; STORAGE COMPOUNDS; STORAGE METABOLISM; TRIACYLGLYCEROLS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMATERIALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD SUPPLY; FORECASTING; GENES; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SUBSTRATES; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

METABOLISM;

GLUCOSE; GLYCOGEN; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIUM; BIOGENIC MATERIAL; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; GROWTH RATE; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; POLYSACCHARIDE; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RECYCLING; SUBSTRATE; WASTE FACILITY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEAST FAMINE CYCLE; GENOME; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS JOSTII;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RHODOCOCCUS; SEWAGE; SUCCINIC ACID;

EID: 84874094576     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2012.569     Document Type: Article

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