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Table 1 Reaction mechanism and protein abundance for glycolytic pathways of E. coli

From: Extraction of elementary rate constants from global network analysis of E. coli central metabolism

Enzyme

Abundance a (molecules/cell)

Concentration b (μM)

Kinetic mechanism

Elementary reactions

Phosphogluco -isomerase (pgi)

1099

2.7

Reversible Uni Uni [51]

G6P + EPGI → EPGI-G6P

    

EPGI-G6P → G6P + EPGI

    

EPGI-G6P → F6P +EPGI

    

F6P + EPGI → EPGI-G6P

Phosphofructo -kinase (pfkA)

3287

8.2

Allosteric regulation and ordered sequential mechanism [39] [52]

ATP + EPFKATR → EPFKAR-ATP

    

EPFKAR-ATP → ATP + EPFKATR

    

F6P + EPFKAR-ATP → EPFKAR-ATP-F6P

    

EPFKAR-ATP-F6P → F6P + EPFKAR-ATP

    

EPFKAR-ATP-F6P → FDP + EPFKAR-ADP

    

EPFKAR-ADP → ADP + EPFKATR

Fructose-bisphosphate aldolase (fba)

16326

40.5

Ordered Uni Bi [51]

FDP + EFBA → EFBA-FDP

    

EFBA-FDP → FDP + EFBA

    

EFBA-FDP → GAP + EFBA-DHAP

    

GAP + EFBA-DHAP → EFBA-FDP

    

EFBA-DHAP → DHAP + EFBA

    

DHAP + EFBA → EFBA-DHAP

Triosephosphate isomerase (tpiA)

9106

22.6

Reversible Uni Uni [51]

DHAP + ETPIA → ETPIA-DHAP

    

ETPIA-DHAP → DHAP + ETPIA

    

ETPIA-DHAP → GAP + ETPIA

    

GAP + ETPIA → ETPIA-DHAP

Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gapA)

49091

121.7

Ordered sequential mechanism [37]

NAD + EGAP → EGAP-NAD

    

EGAP-NAD → NAD + EGAP

    

GAP + EGAP-NAD → EGAP-NAD-GAP

    

EGAP-NAD-GAP → GAP + EGAP-NAD

    

EGAP-NAD-GAP → PGP + EGAP-NADH

    

PGP + EGAP-NADH → EGAP-NAD-GAP

    

EGAP-NADH → NADH + EGAP

    

NADH + EGAP → EGAP-NADH

Phosphoglycerate kinase (pgk)

14682

36.4

Ordered sequential mechanism [53]

PGP + EPGK → EPGK-PGP

    

EPGK-PGP → PGP + EPGK

    

ADP + EPGK-PGP → EPGK-PGP-ADP

    

EPGK-PGP-ADP → ADP + EPGK-PGP

    

EPGK-PGP-ADP → ATP + EPGK-PG3

    

ATP + EPGK-PG3 → EPGK-PGP-ADP

    

EPGK-PG3 → PG3 + EPGK

    

PG3 + EPGK → EPGK-PG3

Phosphoglycerate mutase (pgm)

966

2.4

Reversible Uni Uni [21]

PG3 + EPGM → EPGM-PG3

    

EPGM-PG3 → PG3 + EPGM

    

EPGM-PG3 → PG2 + EPGM

    

PG2 + EPGM → EPGM-PG3

Enolase (eno)

11283

28.0

Reversible Uni Uni [21]

PG2 + EENO → EENO-PG2

    

EENO-PG2 → PG2 + EENO

    

EENO-PG2 → PEP + EENO

    

PEP + EENO → EENO-PG2

Pyruvate kinase (pykF) b

500

1.2

Allosteric regulation and ordered sequential mechanism [24, 39]

PEP + EPYKFTR → EPYKFR-PEP

    

EPYKFR-PEP → PEP + EPYKFTR

    

EPYKFR-PEP + ADP → EPYKFR-PEP-ADP

    

EPYKFR-PEP-ADP → EPYKFR-PEP + ADP

    

EPYKFR-PEP-ADP → PYR + EPYKFR-ATP

    

EPYKFR-ATP → ATP + EPYKFTR

  1. a Protein abundances are taken from mass spectrometry data [34], with the exception of the abundance for pykF which is taken from 2-D gel data [35]
  2. b Volume concentration is calculated based on E. coli cytoplasm volume equivalent to 6.7 × 10-16 L [54]