The relation between the position of mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolic network and their lethality is the subject of this work. We represent the topology of the network by a directed graph: nodes are metabolites and arcs represent the reactions; a mutation corresponds to the removal of all the arcs referring to the deleted enzyme. Using publicly available knock-out data, we show that lethality corresponds to the lack of alternative paths in the perturbed network linking the nodes affected by the enzyme deletion. Such feature is at the basis of the recently recognized importance of 'marginal' arcs of metabolic networks. (c) 2005 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Functional essentiality from topology features in metabolic networks: A case study in yeast / Maria Concetta, Palumbo; Colosimo, Alfredo; Alessandro, Giuliani; Farina, Lorenzo. - In: FEBS LETTERS. - ISSN 0014-5793. - 579:21(2005), pp. 4642-4646. [10.1016/j.febslet.2005.07.033]
Functional essentiality from topology features in metabolic networks: A case study in yeast
COLOSIMO, Alfredo;FARINA, Lorenzo
2005
Abstract
The relation between the position of mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolic network and their lethality is the subject of this work. We represent the topology of the network by a directed graph: nodes are metabolites and arcs represent the reactions; a mutation corresponds to the removal of all the arcs referring to the deleted enzyme. Using publicly available knock-out data, we show that lethality corresponds to the lack of alternative paths in the perturbed network linking the nodes affected by the enzyme deletion. Such feature is at the basis of the recently recognized importance of 'marginal' arcs of metabolic networks. (c) 2005 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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