Análisis de la red metabólica de las causas y la evolución de la dispensabilidad de enzimas en levaduras

Balázs Papp1, Csaba Pál, Laurence D Hurst

  • 1Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, BA2 7AY Bath, Somerset, UK.

Nature
|June 11, 2004
PubMed
Resumen

Muchos genes de levadura parecen no esenciales en el laboratorio, pero un modelo in silico revela que la mayoría son importantes bajo condiciones específicas. Esto explica la dispensabilidad de los genes, con algunos compensados por duplicados o reorganización de flujo.

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