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. 2014 Nov 20;10(11):e1003958. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003958

Figure 1. Understanding KFP and rKFP.

Figure 1

(a) A schematic diagram of KFP applied to a toy metabolic network. At Inline graphic, the system is switched from a Inline graphicC-labeled environment to Inline graphicC-labeled one, and Inline graphic is measured at a few time points thereafter. (b) For a given trajectory of Inline graphic (the black solid curve), the three time regimes (linear, mixed and constant) are marked and three measurements are made (two in the mixed regime and one in the constant). Normalizing it gives Inline graphic between 0 and 1 (the black dashed curve), parameterized by a single parameter Inline graphic, which can be estimated by comparing the normalized measurements to Inline graphic's of different Inline graphic's (the red and blue dashed curves). (c) A schematic diagram of rKFP applied to the same network in (a). Relative quantitation is performed on Inline graphic in two conditions (with subscripts Inline graphic and Inline graphic respectively) with the goal of estimating Inline graphic. (d) The ratio in Inline graphic between Inline graphic and Inline graphic is Inline graphic (Eq. 6), and since Inline graphic's and Inline graphic are identifiable from relative quantitation, so is Inline graphic.