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ArticleBiophysical journal2015

The Influence of Crowding Conditions on the Thermodynamic Feasibility of Metabolic Pathways.

Liliana Angeles-Martinez, Constantinos Theodoropoulos

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Liliana Angeles-MartinezSchool of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Constantinos TheodoropoulosSchool of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. Electronic address: k.theodoropoulos@manchester.ac.uk.
University of Manchester · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intracellular reactions are carried out in a crowded medium where the macromolecules occupy ∼40% of the total volume. This decrease in the available volume affects the activity of the reactants. Scaled particle theory is used for the estimation of the activity coefficients of the metabolites, and thereby for the assessment of the impact of the presence of background molecules, on the estimation of the Gibbs free energy change (ΔrG) of the reactions. The lactic acid pathway and the central carbon metabolism of Actinobacillus succinogenes for the production of succinic acid from glycerol have been used as illustrative case studies. Results suggest the importance of maintaining intracellular crowded regions to favor the feasibility of a pathway that in other circumstances would be infeasible. Moreover, the crowding conditions may change the directionality of reactions and can modify the feasible range of fluxes estimated for a metabolic system compared with those obtained at standard biological conditions.

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Metabolic Networks and PathwaysModels, BiologicalActinobacillusFeasibility StudiesGlycerolGlycolysisIntracellular SpaceLactic AcidSuccinic AcidThermodynamicsGlycerolLactic AcidSuccinic Acid

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PMID26636950
PMCPMC4675822
OpenAlexW1850248491

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