Annotation-free prediction of microbial dioxygen utilization.
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ABSTRACT: Aerobes require dioxygen (O2) to grow; anaerobes do not. However, nearly all microbes-aerobes, anaerobes, and facultative organisms alike-express enzymes whose substrates include O2, if only for detoxification. This presents a challenge when trying to assess which organisms are aerobic from genomic data alone. This challenge can be overcome by noting that O2 utilization has wide-ranging effects on microbes: aerobes typically have larger genomes encoding distinctive O2-utilizing enzymes, for example. These effects permit high-quality prediction of O2 utilization from annotated genome sequences, with several models displaying ≈80% accuracy on a ternary classification task for which blind guessing is only 33% accurate. Since genome annota
SUBMITTER: Flamholz AI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC11494890 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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