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Comparative Metabolic Network Flux Analysis to Identify Differences in Cellular Metabolism

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Metabolic Flux Analysis in Eukaryotic Cells

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Metabolic network flux analysis uses genome-scale metabolic reconstructions to integrate transcriptomics, proteomics, and/or metabolomics data to allow for comprehensive interpretation of genotype to metabolic phenotype relationships. The compilation of many Constraint-based model analysis methods into one MATLAB package, the COBRAtoolbox, has opened the possibility of using these methods to the many biologists with some knowledge of the commonly used statistical program, MATLAB. Here we outline the steps required to take a published genome-scale metabolic reconstruction and interrogate its consistency and biological feasibility. Subsequently, we demonstrate how mRNA expression data and metabolomics data, relating to one or more cell types or biological contexts, can be applied to constrain and generate metabolic models descriptive of metabolic flux phenotypes. Finally, we describe the comparison of the resulting models and model outputs with the aim of identifying metabolic biomarkers and changes in cellular metabolism.

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McGarrity, S., Karvelsson, S.T., Sigurjónsson, Ó.E., Rolfsson, Ó. (2020). Comparative Metabolic Network Flux Analysis to Identify Differences in Cellular Metabolism. In: Nagrath, D. (eds) Metabolic Flux Analysis in Eukaryotic Cells. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2088. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0159-4_11

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