Imperial College London
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ProfessorMauricioBarahona

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics

Director of Research, Chair in Biomathematics
 
 
 
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6M31Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Beguerisse:2018:10.1038/s41540-018-0067-y,
author = {Beguerisse, M and Bosque, G and Oyarzun, DA and Pico, J and Barahona, M},
doi = {10.1038/s41540-018-0067-y},
journal = {npj Systems Biology and Applications},
title = {Flux-dependent graphs for metabolic networks},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41540-018-0067-y},
volume = {4},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Cells adapt their metabolic fluxes in response to changes in the environment. We present a framework for the systematic construction of flux-based graphs derived from organism-wide metabolic networks. Our graphs encode the directionality of metabolic flows via edges that represent the flow of metabolites from source to target reactions. The methodology can be applied in the absence of a specific biological context by modelling fluxes probabilistically, or can be tailored to different environmental conditions by incorporating flux distributions computed through constraint-based approaches such as Flux Balance Analysis. We illustrate our approach on the central carbon metabolism of Escherichia coli and on a metabolic model of human hepatocytes. The flux-dependent graphs under various environmental conditions and genetic perturbations exhibit systemic changes in their topological and community structure, which capture the re-routing of metabolic flows and the varying importance of specific reactions and pathways. By integrating constraint-based models and tools from network science, our framework allows the study of context-specific metabolic responses at a system level beyond standard pathway descriptions.
AU  - Beguerisse,M
AU  - Bosque,G
AU  - Oyarzun,DA
AU  - Pico,J
AU  - Barahona,M
DO  - 10.1038/s41540-018-0067-y
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 2056-7189
TI  - Flux-dependent graphs for metabolic networks
T2  - npj Systems Biology and Applications
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41540-018-0067-y
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01639v6
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/62038
VL  - 4
ER  -
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