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Free energy dissipation of the pyruvate kinase reaction has a minimum at cell metabolite concentrations

M Markus, T Plesser

    Biophysical Chemistry
    |November 1, 1983
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    mass action ratiopyruvate kinaseglycolytic pathwayfree energy dissipation

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