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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 29.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2017 Jun 16;56(25):3184–3196. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00249

Table 1.

Evidence for Multienzyme Metabolic Complexes

metabolic pathway in vitro evidence fixed cell evidence (†colocalization) live cell evidence († colocalization) organism
glucose metabolism mass spectrometry26 immunofluorescence microscopy,25 transmission electron microscopy24,25 fluorescence microscopy25 Trypanosomatida
co-immunoprecipitation7,38,39
mass spectrometry7,38,39
plants
co-immunoprecipitation34 fluorescence microscopy33 yeast
Immunofluorescence microscopy43,44 fly
enzyme inhibitor-binding assays47 immunofluorescence microscopy46,48 mammal (erythrocyte)
immunofluorescence microscopy52,53 fluorescence microscopy53†, fluorescence recovery after photobleaching,53 intracellular fluorescence resonance energy transfer53 human (cancer cells)
pyruvate metabolism cryoelectron microscopy55 mammal
surface plasmon resonance56 immunofluorescence microscopy62,63 human (cancer cells)
TCA cycle bacterial two-hybrid analysis,67 strep-protein interaction experiment,67,73 in vitro reconstitution68 bacteria
cross-linking and mass spectrometry,70 diffusion analysis71 fluorescence recovery after photobleaching69 mammal
mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation native PAGE gel75 yeast
proteomic mapping81 fly
cryoelectron microscopy76 mammal
proteomic mapping6,80 human (embryonic kidney)
purine biosynthesis Tango assay91 fluorescence microscopy88,94†, fluorescence recovery after photobleaching92 human (cancer cells)
pyrimidine biosynthesis cryoelectron microscopy113 immunofluorescence microscopy113 bacteria
immunofluorescence microscopy114 fluorescence microscopy116 yeast
immunofluorescence microscopy112 fly
immunofluorescence microscopy124 mammal
immunofluorescence microscopy102,114 human (cancer cells)
fatty acid synthesis X-ray crystallography128 bacteria
X-ray crystallography,129 cryoelectron microscopy130 immunofluorescence microscopy132 fluorescence microscopy132 yeast
single particle cryoelectron microscopy131 mammal
bioluminescence resonance energy transfer133 human (cancer cells)
natural product biosynthesis mass spectrometry144 fluorescence microscopy144 bacteria
co-immunoprecipitiation140 immunofluorescence microscopy142 fluorescence microscopy139,140 fungus
amino acid metabolism X-ray crystallography153,155 bacteria
mass spectrometry156,157 mammal