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Reconstruction and analysis of the genetic and metabolic regulatory networks of the central metabolism of Bacillus subtilis

Anne Goelzer1 email, Fadia Bekkal Brikci1 email, Isabelle Martin-Verstraete2,3 email, Philippe Noirot4 email, Philippe Bessières1 email, Stéphane Aymerich5 email and Vincent Fromion1 email

Unité Mathématique, Informatique et Génomes, Institut National Recherche Agronomique, UR1077, F-78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France

Unité de Génétique des Génomes Bactériens, Institut Pasteur, URA CNRS 2171, 28, rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France

Unité de Formation et de Recherche de Biochimie, Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot, 2 place Jussieu, 75251 Paris, France

Unité Génétique Microbienne, Institut National Recherche Agronomique, F-78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France

Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaire, Institut National Recherche Agronomique Paris-Grignon, CNRS (UMR2585) INRA (UMR1238), F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France

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BMC Systems Biology 2008, 2:20doi:10.1186/1752-0509-2-20

Published: 26 February 2008

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Additional File 1:

Model of the central metabolism of Bacillus sub-tilis. This file contains the metabolic pathways description and their regulation, according to our formalism defined in the sections Results and Methods of this paper.

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Review of the reconstruction of Bacillus subtilis. This file details the level of knowledge available for each metabolic pathway. The pathways which have been less characterized are explicitely mentioned.

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Available information on the amino acid metabolism of Bacillus subtilis. This file details the level of knowledge available for each amino acid: genes and kinetic reactions, genetic and enzymatic regulation.

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Predictions based on the reconstruction of Bacillus subtilis. The file details the phenotype analysis of B. subtilis and presents the potential utilization of amino acids as carbon or nitrogen sources.

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Functional representation of the central metabolism of Bacillus subtilis. This file provides for each metabolic pathway: (i) a detailed representation of the kinetic reactions; (ii) the organization of genes in operon; (iii) a functional representation with the formalism detailed in the section Results of this paper.

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Isoenzymes in metabolic pathways and their genetic regulation. This file details all known isoenzymes of the central metabolism of Bacillus subtilis and their genetic regulation.

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Mathematical definition of module. The file presents the study of the steady-state behaviour of the main control structures identified in metabolic pathways.

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Local versus global regulation of metabolic pathways. This file details the known genetic regulation of each metabolic pathway and precises (i) the "local/global" status of each genetic regulation; (ii) if the regulation is a modulation.

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