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Metabolic control analysis in drug discovery and disease.
Nature biotechnology - 1 Mar 2002
Cascante Marta, Boros Laszlo G, Comin-Anduix Begoña, de Atauri Pedro, Centelles Josep J, Lee Paul W-N
Abstract excerpt
Metabolic control analysis (MCA) provides a quantitative description of substrate flux in response to changes in system parameters of complex enzyme systems. Medical applications of the approach include the following: understanding the threshold effect in the manifestation of metabolic diseases; investigating the gene dose effect of aneuploidy in inducing phenotypic transformation in cancer; correlating the...
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