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Superessential reactions in metabolic networks.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 May 2012
Barve Aditya, Rodrigues João Frederico Matias, Wagner Andreas
Abstract excerpt
The metabolic genotype of an organism can change through loss and acquisition of enzyme-coding genes, while preserving its ability to survive and synthesize biomass in specific environments. This evolutionary plasticity allows pathogens to evolve resistance to antimetabolic drugs by acquiring new metabolic pathways that bypass an enzyme blocked by a drug. We here study quantitatively the extent to which...
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