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ArticleThe Plant cell2013

Metabolic fluxes in an illuminated Arabidopsis rosette.

Marek Szecowka, Robert Heise, Takayuki Tohge, Adriano Nunes-Nesi, Daniel Vosloh, Jan Huege, Regina Feil, John Lunn, Zoran Nikoloski, Mark Stitt and 2 more

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Article in The Plant cell, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 166 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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166citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

166 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 339 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marek SzecowkaCentral Metabolism Research Group, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
Robert Heise
Takayuki Tohge
Adriano Nunes-Nesi
Daniel Vosloh
Jan Huege
Regina Feil
John Lunn
Zoran Nikoloski
Mark Stitt
Alisdair R Fernie
Stéphanie Arrivault
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Photosynthesis is the basis for life, and its optimization is a key biotechnological aim given the problems of population explosion and environmental deterioration. We describe a method to resolve intracellular fluxes in intact Arabidopsis thaliana rosettes based on time-dependent labeling patterns in the metabolome. Plants photosynthesizing under limiting irradiance and ambient CO2 in a custom-built chamber were transferred into a (13)CO2-enriched environment. The isotope labeling patterns of 40 metabolites were obtained using liquid or gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. Labeling kinetics revealed striking differences between metabolites. At a qualitative level, they matched expectations in terms of pathway topology and stoichiometry, but some unexpected features point to the complexity of subcellular and cellular compartmentation. To achieve quantitative insights, the data set was used for estimating fluxes in the framework of kinetic flux profiling. We benchmarked flux estimates to four classically determined flux signatures of photosynthesis and assessed the robustness of the estimates with respect to different features of the underlying metabolic model and the time-resolved data set.

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MetabolomeArabidopsisCarbohydrate MetabolismCarbon DioxideCarbon IsotopesCell CompartmentationGas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryInositolIsotope LabelingKineticsModels, BiologicalMolecular BiologyPhotosynthesisStarchCarbon DioxideCarbon IsotopesInositolStarch

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PMID23444331
PMCPMC3608787
OpenAlexW2128927770

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