Genome-wide metabolic re-annotation of Ashbya gossypii: new insights into its metabolism through a comparative analysis with Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Kluyveromyces lactis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ashbya gossypii is an industrially relevant microorganism traditionally used for riboflavin production. Despite the high gene homology and gene order conservation comparatively with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, it presents a lower level of genomic complexity. Its type of growth, placing it among filamentous fungi, questions how close it really is from the budding yeast, namely in terms of metabolism, therefore raising the need for an extensive and thorough study of its entire metabolism. This work reports the first manual enzymatic genome-wide re-annotation of A. gossypii as well as the first annotation of membrane transport proteins.

Results

After applying a developed enzymatic re-annotation pipeline, 847 genes were assigned with metabolic functions. Comparatively t

SUBMITTER: Gomes D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4190384 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature