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    Metabolic Pathway Determination and Flux Analysis in Nonmodel Microorganisms Through 13C-Isotope Labeling

    • Last Update: 2021-02-01
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    C-isotope labeling is a commonly used technique for determining and quantifying pathways in microorganisms under various growth conditions. The experimental protocol consists of feeding the cell with a composition-defined substrate and measuring isotopic labeling patterns in the synthesized metabolites (often the amino acids). Not only can the labeling information be cross-referenced with genomic information to identify the novel pathways, but it can also be used to decipher absolute carbon fluxes through the metabolic network of interest. This technique can be widely used for functional characterization of nonmodel microbial species, and thus we provide a
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    C-pathway and flux analysis protocol. The five key procedures are: (1) growing cells using labeled substrates, (2) measuring extracellular metabolite and biomass component, (3) analyzing isotopic labeling patterns in amino acids and central metabolites using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, (4) tracing
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    C carbon transitions in metabolites and discovering new pathways, and (5) estimating flux distributions based on isotopomer constraints. This protocol provides complementary information to the recently published protocol for
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    C-based metabolic flux analysis of the model species
    Escherichia coli
    (Nat Protoc 4:878–892, 2009).
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