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Metabolite essentiality elucidates robustness of Escherichia coli metabolism.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 21 Aug 2007
Kim Pan-Jun, Lee Dong-Yup, Kim Tae Yong, Lee Kwang Ho, Jeong Hawoong, Lee Sang Yup, Park Sunwon
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Complex biological systems are very robust to genetic and environmental changes at all levels of organization. Many biological functions of Escherichia coli metabolism can be sustained against single-gene or even multiple-gene mutations by using redundant or alternative pathways. Thus, only a limited number of genes have been identified to be lethal to the cell. In this regard, the reaction-centric gene deletion...
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