Advantages and disadvantages of aggregating fluxes into synthetic and degradative fluxes when modelling metabolic pathways

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 671-679

  De Atauri, Pedro ^c   Curto, Raul ^c   Puigjaner, Joaquim ^c   Cornish Bowden, Athel ^a   Cascante, Marta ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Biochemical systems theory; Flux aggregation; Kinetic models; Metabolic control analysis; Metabolism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; METABOLISM; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOICHIOMETRY; THEORY;

KINETICS; METABOLISM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PURINES;

EID: 0005272597     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00760.x     Document Type: Article

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