MetNetComp Database [1] / Minimal gene deletions

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

Model : iML1515 [2].
Target metabolite : eig3p_c
List of minimal gene deletion strategies (Download)

Gene deletion strategy (84 of 89: See next) for growth-coupled production (at least stoichioemetrically feasible)
  Gene deletion size : 44
  Gene deletion: b4069 b4384 b3708 b3008 b3115 b1849 b2296 b2779 b2925 b2097 b0030 b2407 b1238 b1779 b1982 b2797 b3117 b1814 b4471 b3946 b0825 b2440 b0595 b0261 b3709 b4381 b2406 b3161 b0112 b2789 b3127 b2975 b0114 b3603 b1539 b2492 b0904 b2578 b1533 b3927 b1473 b0494 b3447 b3662   (List of alternative genes)
  Computed by: RandTrimGdel [1] (Step 1, Step 2)

When growth rate is maximized,
  Growth Rate : 0.598604 (mmol/gDw/h)
  Minimum Production Rate : 0.760701 (mmol/gDw/h)

 Substrate: (mmol/gDw/h)
  EX_o2_e : 26.403293
  EX_glc__D_e : 10.000000
  EX_nh4_e : 7.986939
  EX_pi_e : 1.338117
  EX_so4_e : 0.150740
  EX_k_e : 0.116843
  EX_fe2_e : 0.009614
  EX_mg2_e : 0.005193
  EX_ca2_e : 0.003116
  EX_cl_e : 0.003116
  EX_cu2_e : 0.000424
  EX_mn2_e : 0.000414
  EX_zn2_e : 0.000204
  EX_ni2_e : 0.000193
  EX_cobalt2_e : 0.000015

Product: (mmol/gDw/h)
  EX_h2o_e : 46.911812
  EX_co2_e : 27.299503
  EX_h_e : 8.804795
  EX_ac_e : 1.781846
  Auxiliary production reaction : 0.760701
  DM_oxam_c : 0.000670
  DM_5drib_c : 0.000402
  DM_4crsol_c : 0.000133

Visualization
  1. Download JSON file.
  2. Go to Escher site [3].
  3. Select "Data > Load reaction data" and apply the downloaded file.

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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