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SysMO is a European transnational funding and research initiative on "Systems Biology of Microorganisms".

The goal pursued by SysMO was to record and describe the dynamic molecular processes going on in unicellular microorganisms in a comprehensive way and to present these processes in the form of computerized mathematical models.

Systems biology will raise biomedical and biotechnological research to a new quality level and contribute markedly to progress in understanding. Pooling European research ...

Comparative Systems Biology: Lactic Acid Bacteria

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Pyruvate kinase (PYK, EC 2.7.1.40) is a key step in glycolysis converting phosphoenolpyruvate into pyruvate. The activity of PYK is activator-dependent, with the allosteric activation mostly being due to fructose-1,6-bisphosphate (FBP).

Pyruvate formate-lyase (PFL) is an important enzyme in the metabolic pathway of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and is held responsible for the regulation of the shift between homolactic acid to mixed acid fermentation. PFL catalysis the reversible reaction of acetyl-CoA and formate into pyruvate and CoA. A glycyl radical, who is regenerated within the reaction, is involved; therefore, PFL works only under strictly anaerobic conditions. For its activation, the C-terminal domain has to bind to the ...

Enzymes involved in butanediol formation from pyruvate in L. Lactis and E. faecalis were characterized with respect to their Km's for their substrates and their Vmaxes

In this experiment we glucose-pulsed an E. faecalis cultures re-suspended in 100 mM MES buffer at pH 6.5. Samples were taken in time to study intra- and extracellular metabolites. These data are used to construct a kinetic model of the catqabolism of E. faecalis

In this experiment we glucose-pulsed an L. lactiss cultures re-suspended in 100 mM MES buffer at pH 6.5. Samples were taken in time to study intra- and extracellular metabolites. These data are used to construct a kinetic model of the catabolism of E. L. lactis

Km values of pyruvate kinase of different organisms without/with allosteric effector molecules collected from literature.

Pyruvate formate-lyase (PFL) is an important enzyme in the metabolic pathway of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and is held responsible for the regulation of the shift between homolactic acid to mixed acid fermentation. PFL catalysis the reversible reaction of acetyl-CoA and formate into pyruvate and CoA. A glycyl radical, who is regenerated within the reaction, is involved; therefore, PFL works only under strictly anaerobic conditions. For its activation, the C-terminal domain has to bind to the ...