Table 1 Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and consortium model statistics

From: Logic programming-based Minimal Cut Sets reveal consortium-level therapeutic targets for chronic wound infections

Metabolic models

P. aeruginosa

S. aureus

Consortium

Model statistics

 Number of reactions

1495

1454

3241

 Number of metabolites

1283

1338

2752

 Number of genes

1148

866

2014

 Number of external metabolites and exchange reactions

171

239

293

 Number of reactions useable for cross-feeding

/

/

410 (239 + 171)

MEMOTE and consistency analysis results

 Universally blocked reactions

637

293

1031

 Orphan metabolites (consumed but not produced)

54

39

93

 Dead-end metabolites (produced but not consumed)

84

61

145

 Reactions in stoichiometrically balanced cycles

253

46

697

 Extracellular metabolites without exchange reactions

29

38

/

Compression results on CSP medium

 CSP medium metabolites

47

56

57

 Blocked reactions on CSP medium

673

485

1296

 Number of compressed reactions

470

505

1062

 Number of metabolites of the compressed network

252

440

600

Consortium partner metabolites on CSP medium

 Number of metabolites secreted within the consortium model

65

73

/

 Number of metabolites taken up within the consortium model

48

68

/

 Number of metabolites taken up secreted by the other bacterium

36

47

/

Minimal cut sets of size three or fewer

 Essential reactions on CSP medium

183

309

2

 Synthetic lethal pairs of reactions

184

282

over 50  103

 Synthetic lethal triplets of reactions

216

347

over 50  103

 Total number of MCSs of size three or fewer

583

938

unknown

After tests for consortium growth recovery

 Single-species MCSs nullified by consortium metabolite exchanges

68

199

/

 Single-species MCSs remaining lethal on the consortium

515

739

/

 Consortium-level MCSs with enzyme target potential

65

  1. Models were individually curated and compressed, then essential reactions, synthetic lethal pairs, and synthetic lethals triplets were computed on the single-species models and on the dual species consortium model. MCSs computations of synthetic lethal pairs and triplets on the consortium model were too expansive and thus stopped after one week. MCSs are given at the reaction-level on the uncompressed network.