Modeling networks of coupled enzymatic reactions using the total quasi-steady state approximation

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 0463-0472

  Ciliberto, Andrea ^a   Capuani, Fabrizio ^a   Tyson, John J ^b  

^a FIRC INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; KINETICS; SUBSTRATES;

CATALYSE; ENZYMATIC REACTION; INTERCONVERSIONS; METABOLIC NETWORK; MICHAELIS-MENTEN; MODEL NETWORKS; PROTEIN INTERACTION NETWORKS; QUASI STEADY STATE APPROXIMATION; QUASI STEADY-STATE APPROXIMATIONS; RATE LAWS;

ENZYME KINETICS;

PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL CYCLE; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; STEADY STATE; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 34047240610     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030045     Document Type: Article

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