Abstract：
:13C metabolic flux analysis (13C-MFA) is a widely used tool for quantitative analysis of microbial and mammalian metabolism. Until now, 13C-MFA was based mainly on measurements of isotopic labeling of amino acids derived from hydrolyzed biomass proteins and isotopic labeling of extracted intracellular metabolites. Here, we demonstrate that isotopic labeling of glycogen and RNA, measured with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), provides valuable additional information for 13C-MFA. Specifically, we demonstrate that isotopic labeling of glucose moiety of glycogen and ribose moiety of RNA greatly enhances resolution of metabolic fluxes in the upper part of metabolism; importantly, these measurements allow precise quantification of net and exchange fluxes in the pentose phosphate pathway. To demonstrate the practical importance of these measurements for 13C-MFA, we have used Escherichia coli as a model microbial system and CHO cells as a model mammalian system. Additionally, we have applied this approach to determine metabolic fluxes of glucose and xylose co-utilization in the E. coli ΔptsG mutant. The convenience of measuring glycogen and RNA, which are stable and abundant in microbial and mammalian cells, offers the following key advantages: reduced sample size, no quenching required, no extractions required, and GC-MS can be used instead of more costly LC-MS/MS techniques. Overall, the presented approach for 13C-MFA will have widespread applicability in metabolic engineering and biomedical research.
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Metab Engjournal_title
Metabolic engineeringauthors
Long CP,Au J,Gonzalez JE,Antoniewicz MRdoi
10.1016/j.ymben.2016.06.007subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-11-01 00:00:00pages
65-72eissn
1096-7176issn
1096-7184pii
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