Insight into human alveolar macrophage and M. tuberculosis interactions via metabolic reconstructions

A human alveolar macrophage genome-scale metabolic reconstruction was reconstructed from tailoring a global human metabolic network, Recon 1, by using computational algorithms and manual curation.A genome-scale host–pathogen network of the human alveolar macrophage and Mycobacterium tuberculosis is presented. This involved integrating two genome-scale network reconstructions.The reaction activity and gene essentiality predictions of the host–pathogen model represent a more accurate depiction of infection.Integration of high-throughput data into a host-pathogen model followed by systems analysis was performed in order to elucidate major metabolic differences under different types of M. tuberculosis infection