As the lower bound of the uptake rate is enthalpically governed, variation of the relative energy scale modifies the lower bound of the phase diagram.
This follows that increasing the bulk density of NPs decreases the adhesion strength, and therefore shifts the upper bound of the uptake rate downward.
Since the upper bound of the uptake
The lower bound of the oxygen uptake rate was set to v i,min≥ -20 mmol/gDW/h for all simulations.
Since the bulk density only affects the entropy of the receptors, the lower bound of uptake rate is hardly affected, as shown in Fig. 9. Cells may actively modulate their membrane tension under different physiological conditions through various mechanisms such as membrane reservoir release, lipid molecules insertion into cell membrane, interference from the cortical actin network [37], etc.
The lower bound of each carbon uptake reaction was set to v i,min≥ -10 mmol/gDW/h and the upper bound was set to be v i,max≤ 0 mmol/gDW/h.
Minimal media was simulated by setting a lower bound of −1000 (allowing unlimited uptake) on the exchange reactions for Ca2+, Cl-, Co2+ Cu2+, Cu2+, Fe2+, Fe3+, H+, H2O, K+, Mg2+, Mn2+, MoO4, Na+, Ni2+, NH4-, O2, HPO4, SeO4, SeO3, SO4, WO4, and Zn2+.
Default exchange reaction constraints were used, except for a glucose uptake lower bound of −8 mmol/gDW/h and an oxygen uptake lower bound of −18.5 mmol/gDW/h, representing aerobic growth on glucose.
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Hepatocytes have specific cell membrane insulin receptors, where insulin secreted by the pancreatic β-cells can bind and facilitate the uptake and utilisation of glucose.
This is in contrast to the sequential-binding model discussed above, where the component which binds first can affect uptake of the other, but not the other way round.
