title: Reconstruction of pathways associated with amino acid metabolism in human mitochondria.
abstract: We have used a bioinformatics approach for the identification and reconstruction of metabolic pathways associated with amino acid metabolism in human mitochondria. Human mitochondrial proteins determined by experimental and computational methods have been superposed on the reference pathways from the KEGG database to identify mitochondrial pathways. Enzymes at the entry and exit points for each reconstructed pathway were identified, and mitochondrial solute carrier proteins were determined where applicable. Intermediate enzymes in the mitochondrial pathways were identified based on the annotations available from public databases, evidence in current literature, or our MITOPRED program, which predicts the mitochondrial localization of proteins. Through integration of the data derived from experimental, bibliographical, and computational sources, we reconstructed the amino acid metabolic pathways in human mitochondria, which could help better understand the mitochondrial metabolism and its role in human health.
authors.affiliation: GenNYsis Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, State University of New York at Albany, Rensselaer, NY 12144-3456, USA.
authors.forename: Purnima
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Guda
authors.forename: Chittibabu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guda
authors.forename: Shankar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Subramaniam
mesh_terms: D000592:Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D019295:Computational Biology; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000378:metabolism*; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008954:Models, Biological; D040901:Proteomics
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins