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Network-based prediction of human tissue-specific metabolism

Shlomi, Tomer, Cabili, Moran N, Herrgård, Markus J, Palsson, Bernhard Ø, Ruppin, Eytan·2008·Nature Biotechnology

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Direct in vivo investigation of mammalian metabolism is complicated by the distinct metabolic functions of different tissues. We present a computational method that successfully describes the tissue specificity of human metabolism on a large scale. By integrating tissue-specific gene- and protein-expression data with an existing comprehensive reconstruction of the global human metabolic network, we predict tissue-specific metabolic activity in ten human tissues. This reveals a central role for post-transcriptional regulation in shaping tissue-specific metabolic activity profiles. The predicted tissue specificity of genes responsible for metabolic diseases and tissue-specific differences in metabolite exchange with biofluids extend markedly beyond tissue-specific differences manifest in enzyme-expression data, and are validated by large-scale mining of tissue-specificity data. Our results establish a computational basis for the genome-wide study of normal and abnormal human metabolism in a tissue-specific manner.

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  • Network-based approaches are likely to provide the best hope of integrating all this information by allowing a complete overview of the rumen microbiome because they can capture fundamental properties including taxonomy, functional similarity, metabolic processes, co-expression, and gene-sharing.

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Authors
Shlomi, T., Cabili, M. N., Herrgård, M. J., Palsson, B. Ø., & Ruppin, E.
Affiliations
  • Tel Aviv University (IL)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
Corresponding author
  • Shlomi, Tomer
  • Ruppin, Eytan
Venue
Nature Biotechnology
Published
2008-08-17
Volume
26
Issue
9
Pages
1003-1010
ISSN
  • 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
  • 1087-0156
  • 1546-1696
OpenAlex
W2154061034
Cited by
637
References
55
Citations by year
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FWCI
15.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • Israel Science Foundation
  • Tel Aviv University
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM071808, GM071808)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
Keywords
tissue-specific metabolism, human metabolic network, genome-scale metabolic models, constraint-based metabolic modeling, gene expression data, protein expression data, post-transcriptional regulation, metabolic disorders
MeSH terms
Cell Physiological Phenomena, Gene Expression Regulation, Humans, Models, Genetic, Software, Reproducibility of Results, Models, Statistical, Genome, Human, Computational Biology, Gene Expression Profiling, Databases, Protein, Metabolic Networks and Pathways

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