title: CardioNet: a human metabolic network suited for the study of cardiomyocyte metabolism.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Availability of oxygen and nutrients in the coronary circulation is a crucial determinant of cardiac performance. Nutrient composition of coronary blood may significantly vary in specific physiological and pathological conditions, for example, administration of special diets, long-term starvation, physical exercise or diabetes. Quantitative analysis of cardiac metabolism from a systems biology perspective may help to a better understanding of the relationship between nutrient supply and efficiency of metabolic processes required for an adequate cardiac output.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Here we present CardioNet, the first large-scale reconstruction of the metabolic network of the human cardiomyocyte comprising 1793 metabolic reactions, including 560 transport processes in six compartments. We use flux-balance analysis to demonstrate the capability of the network to accomplish a set of 368 metabolic functions required for maintaining the structural and functional integrity of the cell. Taking the maintenance of ATP, biosynthesis of ceramide, cardiolipin and further important phospholipids as examples, we analyse how a changed supply of glucose, lactate, fatty acids and ketone bodies may influence the efficiency of these essential processes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  CardioNet is a functionally validated metabolic network of the human cardiomyocyte that enables theorectical studies of cellular metabolic processes crucial for the accomplishment of an adequate cardiac output.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1/Virchowweg 6, 10117 Berlin, Germany. anja.karlstaedt@charite.de
authors.forename: Anja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karlstädt
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fliegner
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kararigas
authors.forename: Hugo Sanchez
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Ruderisch
authors.forename: Vera
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Regitz-Zagrosek
authors.forename: Hermann-Georg
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Holzhütter
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D001692:Biological Transport; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways; D032383:Myocytes, Cardiac / Q000378:metabolism*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D010100:Oxygen