Abstract
Diatoms are eukaryotic microalgae that are responsible for up to 40% of the ocean's primary productivity. How diatoms respond to environmental perturbations such as elevated carbon concentrations in the atmosphere is currently poorly understood. We developed a transcriptional regulatory network based on various transcriptome sequencing expression libraries for different environmental responses to gain insight into the marine diatom's metabolic and regulatory interactions and provide a comprehensive framework of responses to increasing atmospheric carbon levels. This transcriptional regulatory network was integrated with a recently published genome-scale metabolic model of Phaeodactylum tricornutum to explore the connectivity of the regulatory network and shared metabolites. The integrated regulatory and metabolic model revealed highly connected modules within carbon and nitrogen metabolism. P. tricornutum's response to rising carbon levels was analyzed by using the recent genome-scale metabolic model with cross comparison to experimental manipulations of carbon dioxide.
Original language | English |
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Article number | e00142 |
Journal | mSystems |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:Copyright © 2017 Levering et al.
Other keywords
- Coregulated genes
- Genome-scale metabolic network reconstruction
- Integrated network modeling
- Phaeodactylum tricornutum
- Regulatory network inference