Research Article

Generation and Analysis of Large-Scale Data-Driven Mycobacterium tuberculosis Functional Networks for Drug Target Identification

Table 4

Repartition per class of potential drug target proteins, considering those which are central and those considered to be more influential.

Functional class Proteins Drug targets Central targets Influential targets

1 Virulence, detoxification, adaptation 176 31 2 1
2Lipid metabolism 230 75 35 28
3Information pathways 245 85 21
4Cell wall and cell processes 618 112 52 5
5Insertion seqs and phages8210
6 PE/PPE 147 69 2
7Intermediary metabolism and respiration 884 262 93 70
8Unknown 1637 169 24 10
9Regulatory proteins 176 68 12

Total 4195 881 241 114