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Metabolism involves not just single biochemical reactions, but coordinated networks of reactions. These networks are usually remarkably well-regulated, keeping close to a set-point, a steady-state or dynamic equilibrium in most healthy organisms. Substantial deviation from that set-point may betoken disease or some other extraordinary circumstance. On the other hand, biotechnologists may want to manipulate an organism to overproduce a desirable product, controlling its metabolism to deviate from the normal set-point. Groen and Westerhoff [30] have listed four questions that theories of metabolic control should answer
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Bloomfield, V. (2009). Regulation and Control of Metabolism. In: Computer Simulation and Data Analysis in Molecular Biology and Biophysics. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0083-8_9
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