期刊
COMPUTATIONAL AND STRUCTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
卷 10, 期 16, 页码 41-50出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2014.05.008
关键词
Non-orthologous displacements; Paralogs; Metabolic reconstruction
资金
- US National Science Foundation [MCB-1153413]
The availability of thousands of sequenced genomes has revealed the diversity of biochemical solutions to similar chemical problems. Even for molecules at the heart of metabolism, such as cofactors, the pathway enzymes first discovered in model organisms like Escherichia coli or Saccharomyces cerevisiae are often not universally conserved. Tetrahydrofolate (THF) (or its close relative tetrahydromethanopterin) is a universal and essential C-1-carrier that most microbes and plants synthesize de novo. The THF biosynthesis pathway and enzymes are, however, not universal and alternate solutions are found for most steps, making this pathway a challenge to annotate automatically in many genomes. Comparing THF pathway reconstructions and functional annotations of a chosen set of folate synthesis genes in specific prokaryotes revealed the strengths and weaknesses of different microbial annotation platforms. This analysis revealed that most current platforms fail in metabolic reconstruction of variant pathways. However, all the pieces are in place to quickly correct these deficiencies if the different databases were built on each other's strengths. (C) 2014 de Crecy-Lagard. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of the Research Network of Computational and Structural Biotechnology.
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