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A topological characterization of medium-dependent essential metabolic reactions.
Metabolites 2, 632-647 (2012)
Metabolism has frequently been analyzed from a network perspective. A major question is how network properties correlate with biological features like growth rates, flux patterns and enzyme essentiality. Using methods from graph theory as well as established topological categories of metabolic systems, we analyze the essentiality of metabolic reactions depending on the growth medium and identify the topological footprint of these reactions. We find that the typical topological context of a medium-dependent essential reaction is systematically different from that of a globally essential reaction. In particular, we observe systematic differences in the distribution of medium-dependent essential reactions across three-node subgraphs (the network motif signature of medium-dependent essential reactions) compared to globally essential or globally redundant reactions. In this way, we provide evidence that the analysis of metabolic systems on the few-node subgraph scale is meaningful for explaining dynamic patterns. This topological characterization of medium-dependent essentiality provides a better understanding of the interplay between reaction deletions and environmental conditions.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
flux-balance analysis; metabolic networks; network motifs
ISSN (print) / ISBN
2218-1989
e-ISSN
2218-1989
Journal
Metabolites
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Volume: 2,
Issue: 3,
Pages: 632-647
Publisher
MDPI
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Peer reviewed