Metabolic networks: Enzyme function and metabolite structure

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 300-306

  Hatzimanikatis, Vassily ^a   Li, Chunhui ^a   Ionita, Justin A ^a   Broadbelt, Linda J ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

EC; Electron transfer system; Enzyme Commission; ETS; Small molecule metabolism; SMM

Indexed keywords

CELL ACTIVITY; CELL METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOICHIOMETRY;

ENZYMES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 2942612447     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2004.04.004     Document Type: Review

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