Modulation of metabolite concentrations with no net effect on fluxes
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High-Throughput Metabolic Profiling for Model Refinements of Microalgae
Published on: December 4, 2021
Luz Cárdenas María1, Fernando Ortega, Marta Cascante
1IBSM-BIP-CNRS, Marseille, France. cardenas@ibsm.cnrs-mrs.fr
Abstract:
The concentration of a metabolite in a metabolic system can be varied without affecting any other concentrations or any fluxes by varying the concentrations of two inhibitors, one a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme that produces the metabolite, the other a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme that consumes it. The two concentrations need to be varied in opposite directions in such a way that the they add up to 100% when each is expressed as a percentage of the concentration that gives the desired flux in the absence of the other. The general approach can be extended to systems in which the inhibited enzymes do not catalyse consecutive reactions.
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