Further developments towards a genome-scale metabolic model of yeast

Dobson, Paul D. and Smallbone, Kieran and Jameson, Daniel and Simeonidis, Evangelos and Lanthaler, Karin and Pir, Pınar and Lu, Chuan and Swainston, Neil and Dunn, Warwick B. and Fisher, Paul and Hull, Duncan and Brown, Marie and Oshota, Olusegun and Stanford, Natalie J. and Kell, Douglas B. and King, Ross D. and Oliver, Stephen G. and Stevens, Robert D. and Mendes, Pedrp (2010) Further developments towards a genome-scale metabolic model of yeast. BMC Systems Biology, 4 (195).

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Abstract

Background To date, several genome-scale network reconstructions have been used to describe the metabolism of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, each differing in scope and content. The recent community-driven reconstruction, while rigorously evidenced and well annotated, under-represented metabolite transport, lipid metabolism and other pathways, and was not amenable to constraint-based analyses because of lack of pathway connectivity. Results We have expanded the yeast network reconstruction to incorporate many new reactions from the literature and represented these in a well-annotated and standards-compliant manner. The new reconstruction comprises 1102 unique metabolic reactions involving 924 unique metabolites - significantly larger in scope than any previous reconstruction. The representation of lipid metabolism in particular has improved, with 234 out of 268 enzymes linked to lipid metabolism now present in at least one reaction. Connectivity is emphatically improved, with more than 90% of metabolites now reachable from the growth medium constituents. The present updates allow constraint-based analyses to be performed; viability predictions of single knockouts are comparable to results from in vivo experiments and to those of previous reconstructions. Conclusions We report the development of the most complete reconstruction of yeast metabolism to date that is based upon reliable literature evidence and richly annotated according to MIRIAM standards. The reconstruction is available in the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) and via a publicly accessible database http://www.comp-sys-bio.org/yeastnet/

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	MSC 2010, the AMS's Mathematics Subject Classification > 92 Biology and other natural sciences
Depositing User:	Dr Kieran Smallbone
Date Deposited:	12 Jul 2015
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2017 14:13
URI:	https://eprints.maths.manchester.ac.uk/id/eprint/2333

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