A strategy to calculate the patterns of nutrient consumption by microorganisms applying a two-level optimisation principle to reconstructed metabolic networks

Journal of Biological Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2008, Pages 73-90

  Ponce De León, Miguel ^a   Cancela, Héctor ^a   Acerenza, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli metabolism; Genome scale networks; Metabolic models; Metabolic networks; Metabolic regulation; Metabolic responses; Optimisation criteria; Stoichiometric networks

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT LOADING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 55349133841     PISSN: 00920606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10867-008-9067-2     Document Type: Article

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