Designing metabolism: Alternative connectivities for the pentose phosphate pathway

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 815-856

  Mittenthal, Jay E ^a   Yuan, Ao ^b   Clarke, Bertrand ^b   Scheeline, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENTOSE PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOSPHATE METABOLISM; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032170434     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bulm.1997.0043     Document Type: Article

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