MetNetComp Database [1] / Minimal gene deletions

Minimal gene deletions for simulation-based growth-coupled production. You can also see maximal gene deletions.

Model : iLB1027_lipid [2].
Target metabolite : pc182n6180_c
List of minimal gene deletion strategies (Download)

Gene deletion strategy (11 of 35: See next) for growth-coupled production (at least stoichioemetrically feasible)
  Gene deletion size : 22
  Gene deletion: PHATRDRAFT_54082 PHATRDRAFT_30145 PHATRDRAFT_12762 Phatr3_EG02232 PHATRDRAFT_55126 PHATRDRAFT_49339 PHATRDRAFT_41515 PHATRDRAFT_draft348 PHATRDRAFT_31599 Phatr3_EG02361 PHATRDRAFT_43194 PHATRDRAFT_50971 PHATRDRAFT_46133 PHATRDRAFT_19901 PHATRDRAFT_32849 PHATRDRAFT_draft1517 PHATRDRAFT_28585 PHATRDRAFT_43697 PHATRDRAFT_28181 PHATRDRAFT_12452 Phatr3_EG02611 PHATRDRAFT_15536   (List of alternative genes)
  Computed by: RandTrimGdel [1] (Step 1, Step 2)

When growth rate is maximized,
  Growth Rate : 0.355292 (mmol/gDw/h)
  Minimum Production Rate : 0.021120 (mmol/gDw/h)

 Substrate: (mmol/gDw/h)
  EX_photon_e : 1000.000000
  EX_co2_e : 80.041648
  EX_h2o_e : 67.750706
  EX_so4_e : 8.217301
  EX_no3_e : 1.760000
  EX_pi_e : 0.109341
  EX_mg2_e : 0.006349

Product: (mmol/gDw/h)
  EX_o2_e : 100.803389
  SK_for_c : 21.074999
  DM_dmsp_c : 8.154116
  EX_h_e : 2.802543
  DM_biomass_c : 0.355292
  EX_etoh_e : 0.194965
  Auxiliary production reaction : 0.021120

Visualization
  1. Download JSON file.
  2. Go to Escher site [3].

References
[1] Tamura, T. MetNetComp: Database for minimal and maximal gene deletion strategies for growth-coupled production of genome-scale metabolic networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2023).
[2] Norsigian, C. J., Pusarla, N., McConn, J. L., Yurkovich, J. T., Dräger, A., Palsson, B. O., & King, Z. (2020). BiGG Models 2020: multi-strain genome-scale models and expansion across the phylogenetic tree. Nucleic acids research, 48(D1), D402-D406.
[3] King, Z. A., Dräger, A., Ebrahim, A., Sonnenschein, N., Lewis, N. E., & Palsson, B. O. (2015). Escher: a web application for building, sharing, and embedding data-rich visualizations of biological pathways. PLoS computational biology, 11(8), e1004321.

Last updated: 09-Jul-2025
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