Bayesian Network Analysis of Lysine Biosynthesis Pathway in Rice Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Lysine is the first limiting essential amino acid in rice because it is present in the lowest quantity compared to all the other amino acids. Amino acids are the building block of proteins and play an essential role in maintaining the human bodys healthy functioning. Rice is a staple food for more than half of the global population; thus, increasing the lysine content in rice will help improve global health. In this paper, we studied the lysine biosynthesis pathway in rice (Oryza sativa) to identify the regulators of the lysine reporter gene LYSA (LOC_Os02g24354). Genetically intervening at the regulators has the potential to increase the overall lysine content in rice. We modeled the lysine biosynthesis pathway in rice seedlings under normal and saline (NaCl) stress conditions using Bayesian networks. We estimated the model parameters using experimental data and identified the gene DAPF(LOC_Os12g37960) as a positive regulator of the lysine reporter gene LYSA under both normal and saline stress conditions. Based on this analysis, we conclude that the gene DAPF is a potent candidate for genetic intervention. Upregulating DAPF using methods such as CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing strategy has the potential to upregulate the lysine reporter gene LYSA and increase the overall lysine content in rice.

published proceedings

  • INVENTIONS

altmetric score

  • 1

author list (cited authors)

  • Lahiri, A., Rastogi, K., Datta, A., & Septiningsih, E. M.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • Lahiri, Aditya||Rastogi, Khushboo||Datta, Aniruddha||Septiningsih, Endang M

publication date

  • May 2021

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