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Genome Biology and Biotechnology

Genome Biology and Biotechnology. The next frontier: Systems biology. Prof. M. Zabeau Department of Plant Systems Biology Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) University of Gent International course 2005. Genomics. Functional Genomics. Systems Biology.

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Genome Biology and Biotechnology

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  1. Genome Biology and Biotechnology The next frontier: Systems biology Prof. M. Zabeau Department of Plant Systems Biology Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) University of Gent International course 2005

  2. Genomics

  3. . . Functional Genomics

  4. Systems Biology

  5. From genes to networks Molecular Biology 60s to mid 80s gene Molecular Genetics since mid 80s pathway Systems Biology since mid 90s network

  6. The large-scale organisation of metabolic networks Jeong et al (2000) Nature 407: 651 • Study of the design principles underlying the structure of biological systems • Dissection of integrated “pathway-genome” databases providing complex connectivity maps

  7. Case study • Analyses of core cellular metabolisms as • described in the `Intermediate metabolism and bioenergetics' portions of the WIT database • Prediction of metabolic pathways in organisms • on the basis of its annotated genome (presence of presumed open reading frame for enzymes that catalyse a given metabolic reaction) • in combination with firmly established data from the biochemical literature. • 6 archaea, 32 bacteria and 5 eukaryotes Reprinted from: Jeong et al (2000) Nature 407: 651

  8. Graph theoretic representation Nodes are substrates Links are metabolic reactions (with EC enzyme numbers) Reprinted from: Jeong et al (2000) Nature 407: 651

  9. Theoretical Network Architectures The World Wide Web and social networks have a scale-free structure Probability that a node has k links scale-free heterogeneous random uniform Reprinted from: Jeong et al (2000) Nature 407: 651

  10. Connectivity distribution Metabolic networks are scale-free as shown by the distribution of incoming and outgoing links for each substrate. This is a general rule applying to all organisms studied. Archaeglobus fulgidus E. coli C. elegans All 43 Reprinted from: Jeong et al (2000) Nature 407: 651

  11. Network diameter Biochemical pathway length in E. coli Average path length (43) Definition: the shortest “pathway”averaged over all pairs of substrates Archae Bacteria Eukarya Unexpectedly, network diameter does not increase with complexity. Therefore interconnectivity grows with the addition of substrates. incoming links outgoing links Reprinted from: Jeong et al (2000) Nature 407: 651

  12. Hub properties • A few hubs dominate the overall connectivity • The sequential (“mutations”) removal of the most connected hubs dramatically increases the network diameter until disintegration • the metabolic networks seem highly robust in computer simulations (cf. lethal mutation rate observed in vivo) Reprinted from: Jeong et al (2000) Nature 407: 651

  13. Conclusions • The structure of biological networks are far from random • Their contemporary topology reflects a long evolutionary process • They show a robust response towards internal defects • Contrary to other scale-free networks, • metabolic ones do not grow in diameter with increasing complexity • which may be represent an additional (necessary?) survival and growth advantage Reprinted from: Jeong et al (2000) Nature 407: 651

  14. Extension of the concept • Protein-protein interaction networks are also scale-free • yeast Y2H data • The probability for a gene to be essential • increases with the connectedness of the encoded protein • 93% of proteins have 5 links or less • 21% of their genes are essential • 7% of have more than 15 links • 62 % of their genes are essential Jeong et al (2001) Nature 411: 41

  15. Reprinted from: Jeong et al (2001) Nature 411: 41

  16. A long way to go… • List of biological components • cells, genes, proteins, metabolites • Description of local relationships • expression cluster • protein-protein interaction • molecule trafficking • cell-cell crosstalk • Whole system architecture • Dynamic regulatory mechanisms • System behaviour prediction • System manipulation, de novo design need more data!

  17. Recommended reading • Large-scale organisation of biological networks • Jeong et al (2000) Nature 407: 651 • Oltvai and Barabasi (2002) Science 298: 763 • Modelling at different levels • Ideker and Lauffenburger (2003) TIB 21, 255 • Synthetic biology • Elowitz and Leibner (2000) Nature 403: 335

  18. Further reading • Large-scale organisation of biological networks • Jeong et al (2001) Nature 411: 41 • Han et al (2004) Nature 430: 88 • Oltvai and Barabasi (2002) Science 298: 763 • Modelling at different levels • Maere et al (2005) Bioinformatics 21: 3448 • Vercruysse and Kuiper (2005) Bioinformatics 21: 269 • Synthetic biology • Guet et al. (2002) Science 296: 1466

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