FEV_KEGG.Experiments.53 module

Context

In 52, we did this before, but this time we include partial robustness.

Question

Which neofunctionalised enzymes cause the core metabolism of Deltaproteobacteria to have increased redundancy? How much do they contribute? Grouped by contributed functions, sorted lexicographically, annotated with links to KEGG, annotated with human-readable names (if possible), and exported into an HTML file.

Method

  • get clade
  • get core metabolism
  • calculate “neofunctionalised” ECs
  • calculate redundancy
  • REPEAT for each “neofunctionalised” EC contributing to redundancy
  • report enzyme pairs of neofunctionalisations, which caused the EC to be considered “neofunctionalised”, and are in return contributing to redundancy
  • print them into nice HTML

Result

core metabolism majority: 80%
neofunctionalisation majority: 0% (this means that gene duplication within a single organism is enough)

Deltaproteobacteria:

core metabolism ECs: 228

"neofunctionalised" ECs: 36 (16%)

Neofunctionalisations contributing to robustness: 61
[see file Deltaproteobacteria_ROBUSTNESS_PARTIAL_Neofunctionalisations-For-Contributed-EC.html]

"neofunctionalised" ECs: 36 (16%)

Neofunctionalisations contributing to robustness: 91

[see file Deltaproteobacteria_ROBUSTNESS_BOTH_Neofunctionalisations-For-Contributed-EC.html]

Conclusion

In 52, we saw 84 neofunctionalisations contributing to full robustness. Additionally, 61 neofunctionalisations contribute to partial redundancy.

However, when adding these two sets of neofunctionalisations (ROBUSTNESS_BOTH), they result in only 91 different neofunctionalisations. This means that some neofunctionalisations contribute to both, full and partial robustness. This is to be expected, because EC numbers (of which a neofunctionalisation’s function change has at least two) can, if they are in a central position, easily contribute to the redundancy of multiple other EC numbers. Some of which may be fully redundant, some only partially redundant.

Note: the well-known neofunctionalisation 2.6.1.1 <-> 2.6.1.9 does not occur in 52. Possible causes were believed to be a high majority percentage, or that both of the two EC numbers can only contribute to partial redundancy. In Deltaproteobacteria_ROBUSTNESS_PARTIAL_Neofunctionalisations-For-Contributed-EC.html we see seven neofunctionalisations involving 2.6.1.1 and 2.6.1.9, therefore, the cause of the non-appearance in 52 was indeed that they only contribute to partial redundancy. This shows that it might be wise to choose partial types of redundancy, to receive more interesting results, especially when dealing with incomplete data such as KEGG’s GENE and PATHWAY databases.

FEV_KEGG.Experiments.53.getCladeA()[source]