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Modeling metabolism of the human gut microbiome

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Magnúsdóttir, Stefanía, Thiele, Ines·2018·Current Opinion in Biotechnology

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The human gut microbiome plays an important part in human health. The complexity of the microbiome makes it difficult to determine the detailed metabolic functions and cross-talk occurs between the individual species. In silico systems biology studies of the microbiome can help to identify metabolite exchanges among gut microbes. Constraint-based reconstruction and analysis methods use biochemically accurate genome-scale metabolic networks of microorganisms to simulate metabolism between species in a given microbiome and help generate novel hypotheses on microbial interactions. Here, we review metabolic modeling studies that have investigated metabolic functions of the gut microbiome.

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  • Metabolic models of the microbiome have yielded understanding in microbe-microbe interactions and microbe-environment interactions.

    “Metabolic models of the microbiome, often utilizing our growing capacity to produce, process and handle big data, have yielded invaluable understanding in microbe-microbe interactions and microbe-environment interactions (Magnusdottir and Thiele, 2018;Sung et al., 2016).”

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Authors
Magnúsdóttir, S., & Thiele, I.
Affiliations
University of Luxembourg (LU)
Corresponding author
Thiele, Ines
Venue
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-06
Volume
51
Pages
90-96
ISSN
0958-1669 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2775633464
Cited by
127
References
83
Citations by year
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FWCI
1.31
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Current Opinion in Biotechnology (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) ATTRACT programme grant (FNR/A12/01)
  • Aides à la Formation-Recherche (FNR/6951193)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Keywords
gut microbiota, microbial metabolism, constraint-based metabolic modeling, genome-scale metabolic networks, metabolite exchange, microbial interactions, human health
MeSH terms
Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Computer Simulation, Humans, Models, Biological, Systems Biology, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Microbial Interactions, Microbiota

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