What process is glycolytic stoichiometry optimal for?

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 488-495

  Del Valle, Alicia Esteban ^a   Aledo, J Carlos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ATP; Energy converter; Energy dissipation; Evolution; Glycolysis; Optimality

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; GLYCOLYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; STOICHIOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALGORITHMS; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GLYCOLYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33645515469     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0135-y     Document Type: Article

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