Nature Communications (May 2017)

Protein-protein interactions and metabolite channelling in the plant tricarboxylic acid cycle

  • Youjun Zhang,
  • Katherine F. M. Beard,
  • Corné Swart,
  • Susan Bergmann,
  • Ina Krahnert,
  • Zoran Nikoloski,
  • Alexander Graf,
  • R. George Ratcliffe,
  • Lee J. Sweetlove,
  • Alisdair R. Fernie,
  • Toshihiro Obata

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15212
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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A metabolon is a complex of sequential metabolic enzymes that channels substrates directly between enzymes, thus optimizing metabolic flux. Here Zhanget al. provide protein interaction and isotope dilution data that support the existence of a metabolon that channels both citrate and fumarate in the plant TCA cycle.