Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

HEPATOKIN1 is a biochemistry-based model of liver metabolism for applications in medicine and pharmacology

  • Nikolaus Berndt,
  • Sascha Bulik,
  • Iwona Wallach,
  • Tilo Wünsch,
  • Matthias König,
  • Martin Stockmann,
  • David Meierhofer,
  • Hermann-Georg Holzhütter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04720-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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In silico models of cells can provide insight into the causes and effects of disease states and reduce the need for in vivo studies. Here, the authors present a kinetic model of hepatocyte metabolism including energy, carbohydrate, lipid and nitrogen metabolism and hormonal and allosteric regulation of enzymatic activity.