Background: A substrate cycle is a set of metabolic reactions, arranged
in a loop, which does not result in net consumption or production of the metabolites.
The cycle operates by transforming a cofactor, e.g. oxidizing a reducing equivalent.
Substrate cycles have been found experimentally in many parts of metabolism; however,
their ... read morephysiological roles remain unclear. As genome-scale metabolic models become
increasingly available, there is now the opportunity to comprehensively catalogue
substrate cycles, and gain additional insight into this potentially important motif
of metabolic networks.
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