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ArticleNature communications2020

Analysis of human metabolism by reducing the complexity of the genome-scale models using redHUMAN.

Maria Masid, Meric Ataman, Vassily Hatzimanikatis

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Maria MasidLaboratory of Computational Systems Biotechnology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6470-5083
Meric AtamanComputational and Systems Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7942-9226
Vassily HatzimanikatisLaboratory of Computational Systems Biotechnology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. vassily.hatzimanikatis@epfl.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6432-4694

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Altered metabolism is associated with many human diseases. Human genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) were reconstructed within systems biology to study the biochemistry occurring in human cells. However, the complexity of these networks hinders a consistent and concise physiological representation. We present here redHUMAN, a workflow for reconstructing reduced models that focus on parts of the metabolism relevant to a specific physiology using the recently established methods redGEM and lumpGEM. The reductions include the thermodynamic properties of compounds and reactions guaranteeing the consistency of predictions with the bioenergetics of the cell. We introduce a method (redGEMX) to incorporate the pathways used by cells to adapt to the medium. We provide the thermodynamic curation of the human GEMs Recon2 and Recon3D and we apply the redHUMAN workflow to derive leukemia-specific reduced models. The reduced models are powerful platforms for studying metabolic differences between phenotypes, such as diseased and healthy cells.

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Genome, HumanModels, BiologicalBiomassBiosynthetic PathwaysCulture MediaHumansMetabolic Networks and PathwaysMetabolismReproducibility of ResultsStatistics as TopicThermodynamicsCulture Media

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PMID32499584
PMCPMC7272419

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