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Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013

Filed:

Feb. 03, 2005
Applicants:

Shintaro Iwatani, Kawasaki, JP;

Yoshihiro Usuda, Kawasaki, JP;

Kazuhiko Matsui, Kawasaki, JP;

Inventors:

Shintaro Iwatani, Kawasaki, JP;

Yoshihiro Usuda, Kawasaki, JP;

Kazuhiko Matsui, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:

Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/48 (2006.01); C12Q 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for intracellular metabolic flux analysis comprising (a) culturing cells in a medium not containing any isotope-labeled substrate to a target phase of the metabolic flux analysis, (b) adding an isotope-labeled substrate to the medium, and continuing culture and collecting samples from the medium in time course, (c) measuring isotope distribution in an intracellular metabolite contained in the samples collected in time course, (d) performing a regression analysis for measured data and calculating an isotope distribution ratio in a steady state, and (e) analyzing a metabolic flux of the cultured cells by using the calculated isotope distribution ratio.


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