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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2005

In silico reconstruction of the metabolic pathways of Lactobacillus plantarum: comparing predictions of nutrient requirements with those from growth experiments.

Bas Teusink, Frank H J van Enckevort, Christof Francke, Anne Wiersma, Arno Wegkamp, Eddy J Smid, Roland J Siezen

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers.

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7 authors.

Bas TeusinkWageningen Centre for Food Sciences, The Netherlands.
Frank H J van Enckevort
Christof Francke
Anne Wiersma
Arno Wegkamp
Eddy J Smid
Roland J Siezen

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

On the basis of the annotated genome we reconstructed the metabolic pathways of the lactic acid bacterium Lactobacillus plantarum WCFS1. After automatic reconstruction by the Pathologic tool of Pathway Tools (http://bioinformatics.ai.sri.com/ptools/), the resulting pathway-genome database, LacplantCyc, was manually curated extensively. The current database contains refinements to existing routes and new gram-positive bacterium-specific reactions that were not present in the MetaCyc database. These reactions include, for example, reactions related to cell wall biosynthesis, molybdopterin biosynthesis, and transport. At present, LacplantCyc includes 129 pathways and 704 predicted reactions involving some 670 chemical species and 710 enzymes. We tested vitamin and amino acid requirements of L. plantarum experimentally and compared the results with the pathways present in LacplantCyc. In the majority of cases (32 of 37 cases) the experimental results agreed with the final reconstruction. LacplantCyc is the most extensively curated pathway-genome database for gram-positive bacteria and is open to the microbiology community via the World Wide Web (www.lacplantcyc.nl). It can be used as a reference pathway-genome database for gram-positive microbes in general and lactic acid bacteria in particular.

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Computational BiologyDatabase Management SystemsDatabases, GeneticAmino AcidsBacterial ProteinsCulture MediaGenome, BacterialLactiplantibacillus plantarumNucleotidesPredictive Value of TestsVitaminsAmino AcidsBacterial ProteinsCulture MediaNucleotidesVitamins

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PMID16269766
PMCPMC1287688

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