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Record W4409742644 · doi:10.1002/cjce.25733

Optimal control for the metabolic activity of microbial cells through the metabolic flux parameterization

2025· article· en· W4409742644 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Quan Li, Liqiang Jin, Zhonggai Zhao, Fei Liu

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMicrobial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsMetabolic flux analysisMetabolic control analysisFlux (metallurgy)Metabolic activityMetabolic pathwayBiochemical engineeringChemistryBiological systemEnvironmental scienceComputational biologyBiochemistryBiologyMetabolismBiotechnologyEngineering

Abstract

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Abstract During microbial fermentation, the metabolic fluxes reflect the growth and reproduction rate of microbial cells. By adjusting the metabolic fluxes, the desired production target can be achieved. It is highly necessary to ensure that the fermentation process meets the production constraints because the metabolic fluxes are regulated by various enzymatic reactions. However, previous studies cannot guarantee that the production constraints are satisfied over the course of the process. In this paper, constraints are designed at the microscopic flux level for the E. coli cell fermentation process. A control variable parameterization method, which discretizes the control variables while the state variables remain continuous, is used to optimize the E. coli cell growth activity, where the time domain is divided into several subintervals. In each subinterval, the metabolic fluxes are approximated by a series of parameters to be optimized. Then, the E. coli metabolic activity is transformed into a dynamic optimization problem, and the optimal trajectories of metabolic fluxes are obtained by solving the problem. Finally, the simulation results of the E. coli fermentation process verify the effectiveness of the method.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.011

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.201
Teacher spread0.196 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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