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Systems biology of lipid metabolism: from yeast to human

Jens Nielsen1

  • 1Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. nielsenj@chalmers.se

FEBS Letters
|October 27, 2009
PubMed

Keywords:
lipid metabolism modelyeast systems biologymetabolic regulationconserved pathways

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