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@article{hornberg2007, abstract = {This chapter describes the basic principles of Metabolic Control Analysis (MCA) which is a quantitative methodology to evaluate the importance and relative contribution of individual metabolic steps in the overall functioning of a particular system. The control on the flux through a metabolic pathway or subsystem can be quantified by the control coefficients of the individual enzymes or components which reflects the extent to which the component is rate-limiting. The perturbation of an individual step is measured by its elasticity coefficient. The effect of perturbation of a single step on the entire pathway or subsystem is, in turn, measured by the response coefficient. Differential control analysis can be used to compare flux through a single metabolic pathway in a pathogen with the same pathway in its host to identify uniquely vulnerable steps with the greatest potential for specifically inhibiting flux through the pathogen metabolic pathway. The utility of this methodology is illustrated with the glycolysis in Trypanosomes and with oncogenic signaling.}, author = {Hornberg, J. J. and Bruggeman, F. J. and Bakker, B. M. and Westerhoff, H. V.}, citeulike-article-id = {4000379}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17195475}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17195475}, issn = {0071-786X}, journal = {Progress in Drug Research. Fortschritte der Arzneimittelforschung. Progr\`{e}s des Recherches Pharmaceutiques}, keywords = {mdb-thesis, metabolic-control-analysis, pharmacology}, posted-at = {2009-02-03 10:23:58}, priority = {2}, title = {Metabolic control analysis to identify optimal drug targets.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17195475}, volume = {64}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - hornberg2007 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4000379 N2 - This chapter describes the basic principles of Metabolic Control Analysis (MCA) which is a quantitative methodology to evaluate the importance and relative contribution of individual metabolic steps in the overall functioning of a particular system. The control on the flux through a metabolic pathway or subsystem can be quantified by the control coefficients of the individual enzymes or components which reflects the extent to which the component is rate-limiting. The perturbation of an individual step is measured by its elasticity coefficient. The effect of perturbation of a single step on the entire pathway or subsystem is, in turn, measured by the response coefficient. Differential control analysis can be used to compare flux through a single metabolic pathway in a pathogen with the same pathway in its host to identify uniquely vulnerable steps with the greatest potential for specifically inhibiting flux through the pathogen metabolic pathway. The utility of this methodology is illustrated with the glycolysis in Trypanosomes and with oncogenic signaling. JF - Progress in Drug Research. Fortschritte der Arzneimittelforschung. Progrès des Recherches Pharmaceutiques SN - 0071-786X TI - Metabolic control analysis to identify optimal drug targets. VL - 64 KW - mdb-thesis KW - metabolic-control-analysis KW - pharmacology AU - Hornberg, JJ AU - Bruggeman, FJ AU - Bakker, BM AU - Westerhoff, HV PY - 2007/// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17195475 ER -