Core and panmetabolism in Escherichia coli.
Escherichia coli exhibits a wide range of lifestyles encompassing commensalism and various pathogenic behaviors which its highly dynamic genome contributes to develop. How environmental and host factors shape the genetic structure of E. coli strains remains, however, largely unknown. Following a previous study of E. coli genomic diversity, we investigated its diversity at the metabolic level by building and analyzing the genome-scale metabolic networks of 29 E. coli strains (8 commensal and 21 pathogenic strains, including 6 Shigella strains). Using a tailor-made reconstruction strategy, we significantly improved the completeness and accuracy of the metabolic networks over default automatic reconstruction processes. Among the 1,545 reactions forming E. coli panmetabolism, 885 reactions were common to all strains. This high proportion of core reactions (57%) was found to be in sharp contrast to the low proportion (13%) of core genes in the E. coli pangenome, suggesting less diversity of metabolic functions compared to that of all gene functions. Core reactions were significantly overrepresented among biosynthetic reactions compared to the more variable degradation processes. Differences between metabolic networks were found to follow E. coli phylogeny rather than pathogenic phenotypes, except for Shigella networks, which were significantly more distant from the others. This suggests that most metabolic changes in non-Shigella strains were not driven by their pathogenic phenotypes. Using a supervised method, we were yet able to identify small sets of reactions related to pathogenicity or commensalism. The quality of our reconstructed networks also makes them reliable bases for building metabolic models.
CNRS UMR 8030, Université d’Evry, CEA, IG, Genoscope, F-91057 Evry Cedex, France. gvieira@genoscope.cns.fr
Gilles
G
Vieira
Victor
V
Sabarly
Pierre-Yves
PY
Bourguignon
Maxime
M
Durot
François
F
Le Fèvre
Damien
D
Mornico
David
D
Vallenet
Odile
O
Bouvet
Erick
E
Denamur
Vincent
V
Schachter
Claudine
C
Médigue
D019295:Computational Biology; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways / Q000235:genetics*
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