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Control of Metabolic Processes

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Athel Cornish-Bowden

    1. Center for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology—CNRS, Marseille, France

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  2. María Luz Cárdenas

    1. Center for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology—CNRS, Marseille, France

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series A: (NSSA, volume 190)

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Prologue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. What Should a Theory of Metabolic Control Offer to the Experimenter?

      • Daniel E. Atkinson
      Pages 3-27

  3. General Aspects of Control Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. The Nature and Role of Theory in Metabolic Control

      • Athel Cornish-Bowden
      Pages 31-40

    3. History and Original Thoughts on the Control Theoretic Approach

      • Joseph Higgins
      Pages 41-49

    4. Control Analysis: a Theory that Works

      • John W. Porteous
      Pages 51-67

    5. Biochemical Systems Theory: Alternative Views of Metabolic Control

      • Michael A. Savageau
      Pages 69-87

    6. Comparison of Accuracy of Alternative Models for Biochemical Pathways

      • Eberhard O. Voit
      Pages 89-100

    7. Modern Control Theories: a Consumers’ Test

      • Albert K. Groen, Hans V. Westerhoff
      Pages 101-118

  4. Mathematical Aspects of Control Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. The Structural Approach to Metabolic Control Analysis I: Theoretical Aspects

      • Christine Reder
      Pages 121-127

    3. The Structural Approach to Metabolic Control Analysis II: Geometrical Aspects

      • Jean-Pierre Mazat, Christine Reder, T. Letellier
      Pages 129-138

    4. Control Coefficients and the Matrix Method

      • David A. Fell, Herbert M. Sauro, J. Rankin Small
      Pages 139-148

    5. Performance Indices in Metabolic Systems: a Criterion for Evaluating Effectiveness in Metabolic Regulation

      • Marta Cascante, Rafael Franco, Enric I. Canela
      Pages 149-156

    6. Practical Determination of Control Coefficients in Metabolic Pathways

      • Enric I. Canela, Marta Cascante, Rafael Franco
      Pages 157-169

  5. Interconvertible Enzymes in Metabolic Control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Zero-order Ultrasensitivity in Interconvertible Enzyme Systems

      • Albert Goldbeter, Daniel E. Koshland Jr.
      Pages 173-182

    3. Metabolic Control by the Cyclic Cascade Mechanism: a Study of E. coli Glutamine Synthetase

      • P. Boon Chock, Sue Goo Rhee, Earl R. Stadtman
      Pages 183-194

    4. Properties Needed for the Enzymes of an Interconvertible Cascade to Generate a Highly Sensitive Response

      • María Luz Cárdenas, Athel Cornish-Bowden
      Pages 195-207
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THIS BOOK collects together papers given at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held at Il Ciocco (Lucca), Italy, from the 9th to the 15th April, 1989. It sets out to present the current state of understanding of the principles governing the way fluxes and concentrations are maintained and controlled in metabolic systems. Although this is a topic that has held the interest of biochemists for many years, it is only quite recently that the methods of analysing the kinetics of multi-enzyme pathways developed over the past two decades have come to be widely discussed or applied experimentally. Many biochemists remain sceptical that the new methods offer a real advance (except in complexity) over the landmark discoveries of the 1950s and 1960s relating to inhibition of enzymes at branch-points by the end products of metabolic pathways, and the interpretation of allosteric effects and cooperativity. Even those who have become convinced that the classical ideas provide only the starting point for understanding metabolic control have been by no means unanimous in their assess­ ment of the direction in which one should advance. In this book we have tried to include all of the current points of view, including the view that the classical theories tell us all that we need to know. We have not seen it as our role as editors to paper over the cracks that exist and to pretend that we can speak to the world with one voice.

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  • Center for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology—CNRS, Marseille, France

    Athel Cornish-Bowden, María Luz Cárdenas

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