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. 2020 Jun 5;2(1):100081. doi: 10.1016/j.xplc.2020.100081

Table 1.

Enzyme complex and metabolon identified in plants

Metabolic pathway Protein–protein interactions method Substrate channel References
Glycolysis 2D gel, blue-native PAGE Isotope dilution experiment Giege et al., 2003; Graham et al., 2007
TCA cycle AP–MS, split-LUC, Y2sH, BiFC Isotope dilution experiment Zhang et al., 2017
Mitochondrial electron transport chain Protein structural evidence Not proven Milenkovic et al., 2017; Lobo-Jarne and Ugalde, 2018
Calvin–Benson cycle Protein structural evidence Not proven Yu et al., 2020
Purine nucleotide synthesis Proposed Isotope dilution experiment; metabolite imaging experiments Pareek et al., 2020
Starch synthesis CoIP, Y2H, AP–MS, SEC, XC Not proven Tetlow et al., 2004; Lin et al., 2017
Polyamine synthesis SEC Not proven Panicot et al., 2002
Dhurrin SMALP, FLIM/FRET, FCS Isotope dilution experiment Møller and Conn, 1980; Laursen et al., 2016
Auxin FLIM/FRET Not proven Kriechbaumer et al., 2017
Phenylpropanoid core pathway FRET, coIP Isotope dilution experiment Achnine et al., 2004
Flavonols CoIP, AP, Y2H Not proven (however, metabolite protein docking models support it) Crosby et al., 2011; Diharce et al., 2016; Fujino et al., 2018; Nakayama et al., 2019
Isoflavonoids CoIP, BiFC, Y2H Not proven Dastmalchi et al., 2016; Mameda et al., 2018
Camalexin CoIP, FRET-FLIM Not proven Mucha et al., 2019
Lignin Co-sublocation, AP–MS, FRET, Y2H, BiFC, coIP Not proven (however, metabolic modeling supports it) Chen et al., 2011; Bassard et al., 2012; Lee et al., 2012; Gou et al., 2018; Dixon and Barros, 2019
Isoprenoids Y2H Not proven Camagna et al., 2019
Bitter acids Y2H, coIP Not proven Li et al., 2015
Monoterpene indole alkaloids BiFC Not proven Stavrinides et al., 2015
Sporopollenin CoIP, Y2H, FLIM/FRET Not proven Lallemand et al., 2013

AP, affinity purification; MS, mass spectrometry; split-LUC, split-luciferase complementation; Y2H, yeast-two-hybrid assay; BiFC, bimolecular fluorescent complementation assay; coIP, co-immunoprecipitation; XC, crosslinking; SEC, size-exclusion chromatography; SMALP, styrene maleic acid lipid particle; FLIM, fluorescent lifetime measurement; FRET, fluorescent resonance energy transfer.