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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2008

Metabolic compartmentation - a system level property of muscle cells: real problems of diffusion in living cells.

Valdur Saks, Nathalie Beraud, Theo Wallimann

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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3 authors.

Valdur SaksLaboratory of Bioenergetics, INSERM U884, Joseph Fourier University Grenoble, France.
Nathalie BeraudLaboratory of Bioenergetics, INSERM U884, Joseph Fourier University Grenoble, France.
Theo WallimannInstitute of Cell Biology, ETH Zurich Hönggerberg, HPM D24, CH-8093 Zuerich, Switzerland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Problems of quantitative investigation of intracellular diffusion and compartmentation of metabolites are analyzed. Principal controversies in recently published analyses of these problems for the living cells are discussed. It is shown that the formal theoretical analysis of diffusion of metabolites based on Fick's equation and using fixed diffusion coefficients for diluted homogenous aqueous solutions, but applied for biological systems in vivo without any comparison with experimental results, may lead to misleading conclusions, which are contradictory to most biological observations. However, if the same theoretical methods are used for analysis of actual experimental data, the apparent diffusion constants obtained are orders of magnitude lower than those in diluted aqueous solutions. Thus, it can be concluded that local restrictions of diffusion of metabolites in a cell are a system-level properties caused by complex structural organization of the cells, macromolecular crowding, cytoskeletal networks and organization of metabolic pathways into multienzyme complexes and metabolons. This results in microcompartmentation of metabolites, their channeling between enzymes and in modular organization of cellular metabolic networks. The perspectives of further studies of these complex intracellular interactions in the framework of Systems Biology are discussed.

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cell structurechannelingcytoskeletondiffusionmetabolic (micro)compartmentationmultienzyme complexesregulationSystems Biology

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PMID19325782
PMCPMC2635703

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