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Phytophthora infestans , the causal agent of late blight disease, affects potatoes and tomatoes worldwide. This plant pathogen has a hemibiotrophic lifestyle, having an initial biotrophic infection phase during which the pathogen spreads within the host tissue, followed by a necrotrophic phase in which host cell death is induced. Although increasing information is available on the molecular mechanisms, underlying the distinct phases of the hemibiotrophic lifestyle, studies that consider the entire metabolic processes in the pathogen while undergoing the biotrophic, transition to necrotrophic, and necrotrophic phases have not been conducted. In this study, the genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of  P. infestans  was achieved. Subsequently, transcriptional data (microarrays, RNA-seq) was integrated into the metabolic reconstruction to obtain context-specific (metabolic) models (CSMs) of the infection process, using constraint-based reconstruction and analysis. The goal was to identify specific metabolic markers for distinct stages of the pathogen's life cycle. Results indicate that the overall metabolism show significant changes during infection. The most significant changes in metabolism were observed at the latest time points of infection. Metabolic activity associated with purine, pyrimidine, fatty acid, fructose and mannose, arginine, glycine, serine, and threonine amino acids appeared to be the most important metabolisms of the pathogen during the course of the infection, showing high number of reactions associated with them and expression switches at important stages of the life cycle. This study provides a framework for future throughput studies of the metabolic changes during the hemibiotrophic life cycle of this important plant pathogen.

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A Genome-Scale Metabolic Reconstruction of Phytophthora infestans With the Integration of Transcriptional Data Reveals the Key Metabolic Patterns Involved in the Interaction of Its Host