metabolic pool

The metabolic pool concept is important to cellular biology.

This size of this reservoir, is referred to as its "metabolic pool."

Outliers to the normalized ratios are metabolic pools that are impacted by the experimental treatment.

Metabolic pool Within a cell (or organelle such as a chloroplast) there exists a reservoir of molecules upon which an enzymes can operate.

These alkaloids are synthesized by the plant from four acetate units from the metabolic pool, forming a polyketoacid which cyclises through an aminotransferase and forms gamma-coniceine as the parent alkaloid via reduction by a NADPH-dependent reductase.

When pooled cells are processed the signals for the compounds from both the control and experimental cells may be distinguished (C) and differences between the ratio of their areas are directly indicative of the ratio of the respective sizes of their metabolic pools (D).