Global organization of metabolic fluxes in the bacterium Escherichia coli

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6977, 2004, Pages 839-843

  Almaas, E ^a   Kovacs B ^a,b   Vicsek, T ^b   Oltvai, Z N ^c   Barabasi A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; FLUXES; METABOLISM; SUBSTRATES; TOPOLOGY;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC FLUXES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ENZYME; GLUTAMIC ACID;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALCULATION; CATALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; STOICHIOMETRY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUTAMIC ACID; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1542288938     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02289     Document Type: Article

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