title: Genome-scale gene/reaction essentiality and synthetic lethality analysis.
abstract: Synthetic lethals are to pairs of non-essential genes whose simultaneous deletion prohibits growth. One can extend the concept of synthetic lethality by considering gene groups of increasing size where only the simultaneous elimination of all genes is lethal, whereas individual gene deletions are not. We developed optimization-based procedures for the exhaustive and targeted enumeration of multi-gene (and by extension multi-reaction) lethals for genome-scale metabolic models. Specifically, these approaches are applied to iAF1260, the latest model of Escherichia coli, leading to the complete identification of all double and triple gene and reaction synthetic lethals as well as the targeted identification of quadruples and some higher-order ones. Graph representations of these synthetic lethals reveal a variety of motifs ranging from hub-like to highly connected subgraphs providing a birds-eye view of the avenues available for redirecting metabolism and uncovering complex patterns of gene utilization and interdependence. The procedure also enables the use of falsely predicted synthetic lethals for metabolic model curation. By analyzing the functional classifications of the genes involved in synthetic lethals, we reveal surprising connections within and across clusters of orthologous group functional classifications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
authors.forename: Patrick F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Suthers
authors.forename: Alireza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zomorrodi
authors.forename: Costas D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Maranas
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D018533:Biomass; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D020043:Genes, Essential; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D016681:Genome, Fungal; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D008957:Models, Genetic; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010641:Phenotype; D049490:Systems Biology
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