Abstract
ChloroKB (http://chlorokb.fr) is a knowledge base providing synoptic representations of the metabolism of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and its regulation. Initially focused on plastid metabolism, ChloroKB now accounts for the metabolism throughout the cell. ChloroKB is based on the CellDesigner formalism. CellDesigner supports graphical notation and listing of the corresponding symbols based on the Systems Biology Graphical Notation. Thus, this formalism allows biologists to represent detailed biochemical processes in a way that can be easily understood and shared, facilitating communication between researchers. In this chapter, we will focus on a specificity of ChloroKB, the representation of multilayered regulation of protein activity. Information on regulation of protein activity is indeed central to understanding the plant response to fluctuating environmental conditions. However, the intrinsic diversity of the regulatory modes and the abundance of detail may hamper comprehension of the regulatory processes described in ChloroKB. With this chapter, ChloroKB users will be guided through the representation of these sophisticated biological processes of prime importance to understanding metabolism or for applied purposes. The descriptions provided, which summarize years of work and a broad bibliography in a few pages, can help speed up the integration of regulatory processes in kinetic models of plant metabolism.
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Curien, G. (2024). A Practical Guide to the Representation of Protein Regulation in the Web Application ChloroKB. In: Maréchal, E. (eds) Plastids. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2776. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3726-5_19
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