Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The art of designing coupling systems to drive reactions for endergonic synthesis is a subject of great interest in the scientific community, but it still presents major challenges. The aim of this kinetic study was to run simulations in COPASI 4.39 to test the behavior of hypothetical models for a system that couples two independent reactions, one exergonic and the other endergonic. In our computational study, we unraveled the qualitative and quantitative conditions that allow and benefit coupling, considering all possible reaction pathways within the network. Optimal conditions were reached by assigning favorable directionalities and low activation energies to six reaction steps within a network that featured twenty reaction steps. Moreover, different models were designed and tested in order to investigate the availability of coupling with different reaction steps.
Source: Molecules
Authors: Sara Incarbone, Luca De Gioia
Institution: University of Milano-Bicocca
Language: English
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,258
OpenAlex ID: W4407626688