Observing local and global properties of metabolic pathways: 'Load points' and 'choke points' in the metabolic networks

Bioinformatics

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1767-1774

  Rahman, Syed Asad ^a   Schomburg, Dietmar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Institute for Biochemistry   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A SYNTHETASE; ADENINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; ANTHRANILATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; ANTHRAX TOXIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIOTIN; CITRIC ACID; CYSTATHIONINE; ENOLASE; GLYCERIC ACID; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; LACTIC ACID; NEOPTERIN; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; OXALOACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PYRUVATE KINASE; PYRUVIC ACID; TRYPTOPHAN SYNTHASE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METABOLITE; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THEORY;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS STR. STERNE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33747890136     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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