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Differential metabolic networks unravel the effects of silent plant phenotypes

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Weckwerth, Wolfram, Loureiro, Marcelo Ehlers, Wenzel, Kathrin, Fiehn, Oliver·2004·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Current efforts aim to functionally characterize each gene in model plants. Frequently, however, no morphological or biochemical phenotype can be ascribed for antisense or knock-out plant genotypes. This is especially the case when gene suppression or knockout is targeted to isoenzymes or gene families. Consequently, pleiotropic effects and gene redundancy are responsible for phenotype resistance. Here, techniques are presented to detect unexpected pleiotropic changes in such instances despite very subtle changes in overall metabolism. The method consists of the relative quantitation of >1,000 compounds by GC/time-of-flight MS, followed by classical statistics and multivariate clustering. Complementary to these tools, metabolic networks are constructed from pair-wise analysis of linear metabolic correlations. The topology of such networks reflects the underlying regulatory pathway structure. A differential analysis of network connectivity was applied for a silent potato plant line suppressed in expression of sucrose synthase isoform II. Metabolic alterations could be assigned to carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism even if no difference in average metabolite levels was found.

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Authors
Weckwerth, W., Loureiro, M. E., Wenzel, K., & Fiehn, O.
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2004-05-10
Volume
101
Issue
20
Pages
7809-7814
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
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W2072040767
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400
References
35
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44.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
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green

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Weckwerth, W., Loureiro, M. E., Wenzel, K., & Fiehn, O. (2004). Differential metabolic networks unravel the effects of silent plant phenotypes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0303415101

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