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Real Time Analysis of Metabolic Profile in Ex Vivo Mouse Intestinal Crypt Organoid Cultures

Published on: November 3, 2014

Whole-cell metabolic control analysis.

Frank J Bruggeman¹, Maaike Remeijer¹, Maarten Droste²

¹Systems Biology Lab, A-LIFE, AIMMS, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

|November 4, 2024

Summary

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Metabolic control analysis (MCA) now includes whole-cell metabolism and evolutionary growth-rate maximization. This approach predicts flux control coefficients and reveals elementary flux modes (EFMs) as optimal networks, with their number constrained by growth-limiting protein concentrations.

Keywords:

Elementary flux modes Enzyme kinetics Metabolic control analysis Whole cell models

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Area of Science:

Systems Biology
Metabolic Engineering
Evolutionary Biology

Background:

Metabolic Control Analysis (MCA) traditionally focuses on enzyme activity.
Understanding cellular metabolism requires a whole-cell and evolutionary perspective.
Protein concentration optimization for growth-rate maximization is a key evolutionary driver.

Purpose of the Study:

Extend MCA to a whole-cell context considering evolutionary growth-rate maximization.
Predict flux control coefficients using proteomics and stoichiometric modeling.
Investigate the emergence and control properties of elementary flux modes (EFMs) in an optimal cellular state.

Main Methods:

Integrating proteomics data and stoichiometric modeling.
Treating protein concentrations as interdependent due to resource competition.
Analyzing elementary flux modes (EFMs) within an evolutionary optimization framework.

Main Results:

Elementary flux modes (EFMs) naturally emerge as optimal metabolic networks.
The number of expressed EFMs is determined by growth-limiting protein concentration constraints.
MCA results are modified by the expression of growth-unassociated proteins.
Flux control coefficients can be estimated from proteomics and ribosome-profiling data.

Conclusions:

MCA is extended to EFMs operating at an evolutionary optimum.
Proteomics data provides a whole-cell view of metabolic enzyme control on growth rate.
This framework can identify conserved, general principles of cellular metabolism across species.