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9E: Metabolic Control Analysis and Systems Biology

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    4614
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    Learning Objectives

    • describe the steady state in context of an isolated single enzyme-catalyzed reaction and for the enzyme when part of a complex metabolic pathway in vivo;
    • state and describe what is required to perform a metabolic control analysis on a biological pathway;
    • write ordinary differential equations to describe the change in concentration of analytes in a given set of coupled reactions;
    • write mass balance expressions for Eo and use it to calculate the fraction of each enzyme form assuming rapid equilibrium;
    • draw "wire" diagrams showing activation and inhibition for coupled reactions;
    • define the flux control coefficient verbally and in the form of a mathematic equation, and explain how to obtain it graphically;
    • use flux control coefficients to explain how control of flux in a pathway is distributed through all enzyme-catalyzed reactions in that pathway;
    • analyze the result of a flux control analysis of a pathway like glycolysis;
    • describe why small changes in the enzymes that have the greatest ΔG values in glycolysis have minor effects in the metabolic flux in glycolysis;
    • define the concentration control coefficient verbally and in the form of a mathematic equation
    • analyze the result of a concentration control analysis of a pathway like glycolysis;
    • define the elasticity coefficient verbally and in the form form of a mathematic equation, and explain how to obtain it graphically
    • state whether the different metabolic control coefficients are global properties of the system or local properties of a given enzyme


    This page titled 9E: Metabolic Control Analysis and Systems Biology is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Henry Jakubowski.

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