Abstract
Let's talk about flux or the importance of (intracellular) reaction rates.
Highlights
The physiology of cells, determined by all extracellular production and consumption rates, intracellular reaction rates and the growth rate, is of fundamental interest in such different fields of the life sciences as microbiology, biotechnology and medical applications. In this Crystal Ball, I emphasize the importance of metabolic reaction rates, that is fluxes, for our understanding of metabolic network operation and envisage a time in which fluxes can be changed at will
The ultimate goal of many fields of the life sciences is to understand cell physiology and the flux distribution, which characterizes the metabolic state of a cell
Fluxes are ignored, despite the ultimate goal implicitly being to understand metabolic network operation
Summary
The physiology of cells, determined by all extracellular production and consumption rates, intracellular reaction rates and the growth rate, is of fundamental interest in such different fields of the life sciences as microbiology, biotechnology and medical applications. In this Crystal Ball, I emphasize the importance of metabolic reaction rates, that is fluxes, for our understanding of metabolic network operation and envisage a time in which fluxes can be changed at will.
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