Metabolomic strategies for the identification of new enzyme functions and metabolic pathways

EMBO Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 657-669

  Prosser, Gareth A ^a   Larrouy Maumus, Gerald ^a   De Carvalho, Luiz Pedro S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

enzyme annotation; mass spectrometry; metabolomics; pathway discovery

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME METABOLISM; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

ENZYME;

ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION;

EID: 84901769672     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201338283     Document Type: Review

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