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Article Dans Une Revue Microbial Biotechnology Année : 2017

Coping with inevitable accidents in metabolism

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Genomic studies focus on key metabolites and pathways that, despite their obvious anthropocentric design, keep being ‘predicted’, while this is only finding again what is already known. As increasingly more genomes are sequenced, this lightpost effect may account at least in part for our failure to understand the function of a continuously growing number of genes. Core metabolism often goes astray, accidentally producing a variety of unexpected compounds. Catabolism of these forgotten metabolites makes an essential part of the functions coded in metagenomes. Here, I explore the fate of a limited number of those: compounds resulting from radical reactions and molecules derived from some reactive intermediates produced during normal metabolism. I try both to update investigators with the most recent literature and to uncover old articles that may open up new research avenues in the genome exploration of metabolism. This should allow us to foresee further developments in experimental genomics and genome annotation.
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Antoine Danchin. Coping with inevitable accidents in metabolism. Microbial Biotechnology, 2017, 10 (1), pp.57-72. ⟨10.1111/1751-7915.12461⟩. ⟨hal-01496339⟩
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