Vacuolar compartmentation complicates the steady-state analysis of glucose metabolism and forces reappraisal of sucrose cycling in plants

Phytochemistry

Volumn 68, Issue 16-18, 2007, Pages 2189-2196

  Kruger, Nicholas J ^a   Le Lay, Pascaline ^a   Ratcliffe, R George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Metabolic modelling; Network flux analysis; Steady state stable isotope labelling; Subcellular compartmentation; Sucrose cycling; Vacuole

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GLUCOSE; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL VACUOLE; GLYCOLYSIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT;

CARBON ISOTOPES; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; GLUCOSE; GLYCOLYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; SUCROSE; VACUOLES;

EID: 34547652831     PISSN: 00319422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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