An analytic and systematic framework for estimating metabolic flux ratios from 13C tracer experiments
Open Access
- 6 June 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Bioinformatics
- Vol. 9 (1), 266
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-9-266
Abstract
Metabolic fluxes provide invaluable insight on the integrated response of a cell to environmental stimuli or genetic modifications. Current computational methods for estimating the metabolic fluxes from 13C isotopomer measurement data rely either on manual derivation of analytic equations constraining the fluxes or on the numerical solution of a highly nonlinear system of isotopomer balance equations. In the first approach, analytic equations have to be tediously derived for each organism, substrate or labelling pattern, while in the second approach, the global nature of an optimum solution is difficult to prove and comprehensive measurements of external fluxes to augment the 13C isotopomer data are typically needed.Keywords
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