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A decade ago, a team of biochemists including two of us, modeled yeast glycolysis and showed that one of the most studied biochemical pathways could not be quite understood in terms of the kinetic properties of the constituent enzymes as measured in cell extract. Moreover, when the same model was later applied to different experimental steady-state conditions, it often exhibited unrestrained metabolite accumulation.  Here we resolve this issue by showing that the results of such  ab initio  modeling are improved substantially by  (i)  including appropriate allosteric regulation and  (ii)  measuring the enzyme kinetic parameters under conditions that resemble the intracellular environment. The following modifications proved crucial:  (i)  implementation of allosteric regulation of hexokinase and pyruvate kinase,  (ii)  implementation of  V max   values measured under conditions that resembled the yeast cytosol, and  (iii)  redetermination of the kinetic parameters of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase under physiological conditions.  Model predictions and experiments were compared under five different conditions of yeast growth and starvation. When either the original model was used (which lacked important allosteric regulation), or the enzyme parameters were measured under conditions that were, as usual, optimal for high enzyme activity, fructose 1,6-bisphosphate and some other glycolytic intermediates tended to accumulate to unrealistically high concentrations. Combining all adjustments yielded an accurate correspondence between model and experiments for all five steady-state and dynamic conditions. This enhances our understanding of  in vivo  metabolism in terms of  in vitro  biochemistry.

Testing Biochemistry Revisited: How In Vivo Metabolism Can Be Understood from In Vitro Enzyme Kinetics