Metabolic flux profiling of Escherichia coli mutants in central carbon metabolism using GC-MS

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 270, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 880-891

  Fischer, Eliane ^a   Sauer, Uwe ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Entner Doudoroff pathway; Flux analysis; Fluxome; METAFoR analysis; Pentose phosphate pathway

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBON METABOLISM; CHEMICAL REACTION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GLYCOLYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; WILD TYPE;

CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037335931     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03448.x     Document Type: Article

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