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- Title
Can sugars be produced from fatty acids? A test case for pathway analysis tools.
- Authors
de Figueiredo, Luis F; Schuster, Stefan; Kaleta, Christoph; Fell, David A
- Abstract
In recent years, several methods have been proposed for determining metabolic pathways in an automated way based on network topology. The aim of this work is to analyse these methods by tackling a concrete example relevant in biochemistry. It concerns the question whether even-chain fatty acids, being the most important constituents of lipids, can be converted into sugars at steady state. It was proved five decades ago that this conversion using the Krebs cycle is impossible unless the enzymes of the glyoxylate shunt (or alternative bypasses) are present in the system. Using this example, we can compare the various methods in pathway analysis.
- Publication
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2009, Vol 25, Issue 1, p152
- ISSN
1367-4811
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btn621