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Phenotypic innovation through recombination in genome-scale metabolic networks.


ABSTRACT: Recombination is an important source of metabolic innovation, especially in prokaryotes, which have evolved the ability to survive on many different sources of chemical elements and energy. Metabolic systems have a well-understood genotype-phenotype relationship, which permits a quantitative and biochemically principled understanding of how recombination creates novel phenotypes. Here, we investigate the power of recombination to create genome-scale metabolic reaction networks that enable an organism to survive in new chemical environments. To this end, we use flux balance analysis, an experimentally validated computational method that can predict metabolic phenotypes from metabolic genotypes. We show that recombination is much more likely to create novel metabolic abilities than random changes in chemical reactions of a metabolic network. We also find that phenotypic innovation is more likely when recombination occurs between parents that are genetically closely related, phenotypically highly diverse, and viable on few rather than many carbon sources. Survival on a new carbon source preferentially involves reactions that are superessential, that is, essential in many metabolic networks. We validate our observations with data from 61 reconstructed prokaryotic metabolic networks. Our systematic and quantitative analysis of metabolic systems helps understand how recombination creates innovation.

SUBMITTER: Hosseini SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5046906 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Phenotypic innovation through recombination in genome-scale metabolic networks.

Hosseini Sayed-Rzgar SR   Martin Olivier C OC   Wagner Andreas A  

Proceedings. Biological sciences 20160901 1839


Recombination is an important source of metabolic innovation, especially in prokaryotes, which have evolved the ability to survive on many different sources of chemical elements and energy. Metabolic systems have a well-understood genotype-phenotype relationship, which permits a quantitative and biochemically principled understanding of how recombination creates novel phenotypes. Here, we investigate the power of recombination to create genome-scale metabolic reaction networks that enable an org  ...[more]

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