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Min-max Driving Force Analysis and In Vitro Enzyme Characterization of Proposed In Vivo Ethylenediamine Production Pathway

2025· dissertation· W7133003675 on OpenAlexaff
William Chau

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2025
Typedissertation
Language
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMicrobial metabolism and enzyme function
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTransaminationBioproductionEthylenediamineGlycolaldehydeBioprocessEnzymeMethylglyoxalMetabolic pathwayTransaminase
DOInot available

Abstract

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Ethylenediamine is a large volume chemical used in the synthesis of advanced products across multiple industries and has multiple potential applications in sustainable chemistry. It’s currently produced from petroleum-based processes that raise environmental and health concerns. Here we report on the assessment of the thermodynamic and biochemical feasibility of a proposed enzymatic ethylenediamine bioproduction pathway that would branch from existing engineered ethylene glycol utilization pathway in Escherichia coli. The bioproduction pathway branches from glycolaldehyde, which undergoes a transamination/oxidation step followed by the other before a final transamination step. Min-max Driving Force analysis concluded that the pathway is thermodynamically feasible under certain pathway conditions. Transamination of glycolaldehyde, glyoxal, and aminoacetaldehyde by Silicibacter pomeroyi transaminase SPO3471 were observed and production of monoethanolamine and ethylenediamine were confirmed. Oxidation activity on glycolaldehyde and monoethanolamine by E. coli methylglyoxal reductase ydjG were observed, however production of glyoxal and aminoacetaldehyde could not be directly confirmed due to insufficient evidence and molecular instability respectively. Our results highlight the potential of oxidoreductases and transaminases to be used in an in vivo system for the biosynthesis of ethylenediamine.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.006
GPT teacher head0.244
Teacher spread0.238 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designBench or experimental
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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Published2025
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