title: Metabolic flux analysis in eukaryotes.
abstract: Metabolic flux analysis (MFA) represents a powerful tool for systems biology research on eukaryotic cells. This review describes recent advances, the challenges as well as applications of metabolic flux analysis comprising fungi, mammalian cells and plants. While MFA is widely established and applied in microorganisms, it remains still a challenge to adapt these methods to eukaryotic cell systems having a higher complexity particularly concerning compartmentation or media composition. In fungi MFA was used in the past few years to analyze a variety of conditions and factors and their effects on cellular metabolism. In mammalian cells MFA was applied mainly in cell culture technology and in medical and toxicological research. (13)C metabolic studies on native whole plants are additionally challenging by the fact that CO(2) is usually the only carbon source.
authors.affiliation: Biochemical Engineering Institute, Saarland University, Campus A1.5, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Niklas
authors.forename: Konstantin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Elmar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Heinzle
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D008657:Metabolic Clearance Rate; D008954:Models, Biological; D020543:Proteome / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D020543:Proteome