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Project description:Baart2007 - Genome-scale metabolic network of
Neisseria meningitidis (iGB555)
This model is described in the article:
Modeling Neisseria
meningitidis metabolism: from genome to metabolic fluxes.
Baart GJ, Zomer B, de Haan A, van
der Pol LA, Beuvery EC, Tramper J, Martens DE.
Genome Biol. 2007; 8(7): R136
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: Neisseria meningitidis is a human pathogen that
can infect diverse sites within the human host. The major
diseases caused by N. meningitidis are responsible for death
and disability, especially in young infants. In general, most
of the recent work on N. meningitidis focuses on potential
antigens and their functions, immunogenicity, and pathogenicity
mechanisms. Very little work has been carried out on Neisseria
primary metabolism over the past 25 years. RESULTS: Using the
genomic database of N. meningitidis serogroup B together with
biochemical and physiological information in the literature we
constructed a genome-scale flux model for the primary
metabolism of N. meningitidis. The validity of a simplified
metabolic network derived from the genome-scale metabolic
network was checked using flux-balance analysis in chemostat
cultures. Several useful predictions were obtained from in
silico experiments, including substrate preference. A minimal
medium for growth of N. meningitidis was designed and tested
successfully in batch and chemostat cultures. CONCLUSION: The
verified metabolic model describes the primary metabolism of N.
meningitidis in a chemostat in steady state. The genome-scale
model is valuable because it offers a framework to study N.
meningitidis metabolism as a whole, or certain aspects of it,
and it can also be used for the purpose of vaccine process
development (for example, the design of growth media). The flux
distribution of the main metabolic pathways (that is, the
pentose phosphate pathway and the Entner-Douderoff pathway)
indicates that the major part of pyruvate (69%) is synthesized
through the ED-cleavage, a finding that is in good agreement
with literature.
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