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Table 11 Metabolites with the largest essential carbon fluxes

From: A metabolite-centric view on flux distributions in genome-scale metabolic models

Metabolite

C atoms

Minimum flux

Minimum C flux

glucose 6-phosphate

6

11

66

glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate

3

17.75

53.26

3-phospho-D-glycerate

3

17.75

53.24

1,3-bisphospho-D-glycerate

3

17.75

53.24

2-phospho-D-glycerate

3

16.3

48.89

PEP

3

16.3

48.89

L-glutamate

5

8.46

42.28

2-oxoglutarate

5

8.12

40.62

pyruvate

3

13.3

39.9

fructose 6-phosphate

6

6.59

39.55

6-phospho-D-gluconate

6

5.62

33.7

6-phospho-D-glucono-1,5-lactone

6

5.62

33.7

D-ribulose 5-phosphate

5

5.62

28.08

dihydroxyacetone phosphate

3

8.23

24.68

CO2

1

23.5

23.5

acetyl-CoA

2*

10.82

21.64

oxaloacetate

4

4.3

17.21

D-xylulose 5-phosphate

5

3.09

15.47

acetate

2

6.4

12.8

D-ribose 5-phosphate

5

2.5

12.5

  1. Fluxes are in mmol gDW−1 h−1. *discounting CoA moiety.