Systems-level analysis of mechanisms regulating yeast metabolic flux. Author Sean Hackett, Vito Zanotelli, Wenxin Xu, Jonathan Goya, Junyoung Park, David Perlman, Patrick Gibney, David Botstein, John Storey, Joshua Rabinowitz Publication Year 2016 Type Journal Article Abstract Cellular metabolic fluxes are determined by enzyme activities and metabolite abundances. Biochemical approaches reveal the impact of specific substrates or regulators on enzyme kinetics but do not capture the extent to which metabolite and enzyme concentrations vary across physiological states and, therefore, how cellular reactions are regulated. We measured enzyme and metabolite concentrations and metabolic fluxes across 25 steady-state yeast cultures. We then assessed the extent to which flux can be explained by a Michaelis-Menten relationship between enzyme, substrate, product, and potential regulator concentrations. This revealed three previously unrecognized instances of cross-pathway regulation, which we biochemically verified. One of these involved inhibition of pyruvate kinase by citrate, which accumulated and thereby curtailed glycolytic outflow in nitrogen-limited yeast. Overall, substrate concentrations were the strongest driver of the net rates of cellular metabolic reactions, with metabolite concentrations collectively having more than double the physiological impact of enzymes. Keywords Kinetics, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Glycolysis, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Allosteric Regulation, Nitrogen, Citrates, Pyruvate Kinase Journal Science Volume 354 Issue 6311 Date Published 2016 Oct 28 ISSN Number 1095-9203 DOI 10.1126/science.aaf2786 Alternate Journal Science PMCID PMC5414049 PMID 27789812 PubMedPubMed CentralGoogle ScholarBibTeXEndNote X3 XML