Table 2 |
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Distribution of reactions and metabolites of the inferred genome-wide metabolic network in different functional categories |
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| Functional category |
Reactions |
Metabolites |
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| Carbohydrate metabolism |
311 |
290 |
| Energy metabolism |
106 |
90 |
| Lipid metabolism |
275 |
279 |
| Nucleotide metabolism |
146 |
109 |
| Amino acid metabolism |
412 |
421 |
| Metabolism of other amino acids |
78 |
122 |
| Glycan biosynthesis and metabolism |
80 |
71 |
| Biosynthesis of polyketides and nonribosomal peptides |
8 |
28 |
| Metabolism of cofactors and vitamins |
157 |
181 |
| Biosynthesis of secondary metabolites |
129 |
196 |
| Xenobiotics biodegradation and metabolism |
218 |
298 |
| Category unknown |
418 |
444 |
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A reaction or a metabolite may be involved in different metabolic pathways and, therefore, could be counted more than once. |
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Sun et al. Genome Biology 2007 8:R182 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-9-r182 |
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