The carbon assimilation network in Escherichia coli is densely connected and largely sign-determined by directions of metabolic fluxes

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Baldazzi, Valentina ^a   Ropers, Delphine ^a   Markowicz, Yves ^a,b   Kahn, Daniel ^a,c   Geiselmann, Johannes ^a,b   de Jong, Hidde ^a  

^a INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GENES; METABOLISM;

BIOCHEMICAL REACTION NETWORK; BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; CARBON ASSIMILATION; DIRECT INTERACTIONS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; INDIRECT INTERACTIONS; METABOLIC CONTROL ANALYSIS; METABOLIC FLUX; SIGNALING MOLECULES; TIME-SCALES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBON FIXATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CARBON;

ALGORITHMS; ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; CARBON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77955499190     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000812     Document Type: Article

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