Metabolites: A helping hand for pathway evolution?

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 336-341

  Schmidt, Steffen ^a,b,e   Sunyaev, Shamil ^a,c   Bork, Peer ^a,e   Dandekar, Thomas ^a,d,e  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METABOLITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0038434059     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-0004(03)00114-2     Document Type: Review

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