Authors: Athel Cornish-Bowden (Editor), Maria Luz C rdenas
ISBN-13: 9780792361886, ISBN-10: 0792361881
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Date Published: January 2008
Edition: New Edition
The study of multienzyme systems has advanced considerably during the least decade. The cell is more complicated than classical biochemistry presents it, it contains more structure, and the behaviour of any system of enzymes is more elaborate than can be explained in simple terms. Nevertheless, classical enzymology and metabolism remain central to any modification of the metabolic behaviour of organisms, as attempted by modern biotechnology and drug development techniques.
In this cool, objective look at the current state of the art, internationally respected authors draw attention to the drawbacks, problems, and opportunities associated with this exciting field. The areas covered include problems with current practice, the imposition of human objectives on organisms, understanding health and disease, computer modelling, the increasingly complex picture of cell structure, control and regulation of metabolism, and the general contribution metabolic control is making to biochemistry on a broader canvas.
Thirty-eight contributions from an international cast of biologists and biotechnologists attending an April 1999 NATO Advanced Research Workshop begin with discussion of problems with current practices in the field, including the fact that "real organisms vary widely, not only between species, but also between individuals, even in bacterial cultures..." (from the preface). Subsequent papers address current efforts to impose human objectives on organisms, the nature of health and disease, the use of metabolic models to predict the effects of drugs on particular enzymes, recent discoveries about cell structure, and the control and regulation of metabolism. A more specific sampling of topics: moiety conservation and flux enhancement, metabolic control analysis showing how aneuploidy causes cancer, regulation of energy metabolism in hepatocytes, computational approaches to the study of biochemical pathways, and an evolutionary view of glycogen structure. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
I. | Provoking an Argument: Problems with Current Approaches to the Analysis of Biochemical Systems | |
1. | Snapshots of systems: metabolic control analysis and biotechnology in the post-genomic era | 3 |
2. | Moiety conservation and flux enhancement | 27 |
3. | On the universality of the universal method | 33 |
2. | Imposing Discipline: Manipulation of Organisms for Technological Ends | |
4. | Life is complicated | 41 |
5. | Regulation and redirection of metabolism: incorporating regulatory information in flux calculation | 49 |
6. | Recent development in metabolic pathway analysis and their potential implications for biotechnology and medicine | 57 |
7. | Quantifying the importance of regulatory loops in homeostatic control mechanisms: hierarchical control of DNA supercoiling | 67 |
8. | An integrated approach to the analysis of the control and regulation of cellular systems | 73 |
3. | Understanding Health and Disease: Why Organisms Behave as they do | |
9. | Mechanism of carcinogenesis by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: aneuploidy precedes malignant transformation and occurs in all cancers | 83 |
10. | Metabolic control analysis shows how aneuploidy causes cancer | 99 |
11. | The control strength of glucokinase in hepatocytes: a predictor of metabolic defects in maturity onset diabetes of the young, type 2 | 109 |
12. | Metabolic distress associated with impaired control by alternative substrates: two examples taken from purine metabolism | 117 |
13. | Regulation of ATP supply in muscle: implications for importance of flux control coefficients and for the genesis of mitochondrial myopathies | 125 |
14. | Regulation of energy metabolism in hepatocytes | 131 |
15. | Combined NMR experimental and computer-simulation study of 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate metabolism in human erythrocytes | 139 |
4. | Taking Aim: Use of Metabolic Models to Identify Drug Targets | |
16. | Computational approaches to the study of biochemical pathways and metabolic control | 149 |
17. | Using metabolic control analysis to improve the selectivity and effectiveness of drugs against parasitic diseases | 157 |
18. | Computer simulation as a tool for studying metabolism and drug design | 165 |
19. | Use of metabolic control analysis to design a new strategy for cancer therapy | 173 |
5. | Facing Reality: Not just a Bag of Enzymes | |
20. | Implications of cytoarchitectural analysis | 183 |
21. | Probing the cell interior with NMR spectroscopy | 191 |
22. | Metabolite channelling and protein-protein interactions in the urea synthesis pathway | 199 |
23. | Intracellular distribution of glycogen synthase: Another regulatory mechanism of glycogen metabolism? | 207 |
24. | Supramolecular organization and substrate channelling in the mammalian translation system | 215 |
25. | Analysis of co-localization of glycolytic enzymes in flight muscle and its relation to muscle function in Drosophila | 223 |
6. | Thinking about Metabolism: The Relationship between Control and Regulation | |
26. | Metabolic control from the back benches: biochemistry towards biocomplexity | 235 |
27. | Physiological consequences of a non-regulated mutant phosphofructokinase in Escherichia coli | 243 |
28. | Time-dependent or steady-state control of metabolic systems? | 251 |
29. | Multisite modulation in the control of glycolysis: balance of supply and demand? | 259 |
30. | Exercising control when control is distributed | 267 |
31. | Metabolic control design: implications and applications | 275 |
32. | Determining elasticities in situ | 283 |
33. | Coordination and homeostasis in the response to multiple signals: role of metabolic cascades | 289 |
34. | Putting the cart before the horse: designing a metabolic system in order to understand it | 299 |
35. | Predicting the structural design of metabolic pathways: an evolutionary approach | 309 |
36. | Glycogen structure: an evolutionary view | 319 |
7. | Taking Stock: Control Analysis in the Context of Metabolic Regulation | |
37. | From control to regulation: a new prospect for metabolic control analysis | 329 |
38. | Metabolic control and metabolons in the millennium | 339 |
In memoriam: Paul Srere, 1925-1999 | 347 | |
Contributors | 351 | |
Index | 355 |