Identification of Metabolic Engineering Targets through Analysis of Optimal and Sub-Optimal Routes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Soons, Zita I T A ^a,b   Ferreira, Eugénio C ^a   Patil, Kiran R ^b   Rocha, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b Structural and Computational Biology Unit   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUCCINIC ACID; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; CARBON METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THERMODYNAMICS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, GENETIC; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84876575387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061648     Document Type: Article

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