From owner-metabolic-reg@net.bio.net Tue Feb 11 22:00:00 1997
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From: athel@IR2CBM.CNRS-MRS.FR (Athel)
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Subject: Re: Inorganic phosphate in plants
Date: 12 Feb 1997 00:22:23 -0800
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Albrecht Roscher wrote:

"Higher plants normally have both an ATP dependent and a PPi dependent
phosphofructokinase... This is important in plants as they
have to adapt ... depending on day or night...

"These relations should be rather fascinating for some MCA work." 

Yes indeed -- that was partly what was in my mind in raising the
question.

"Isn't anyone out there doing it?"

Not as far as I know (though Mark Stitt may be -- he certainly knows
both about metabolic control analysis and about plants), but for anyone
looking for an important topic in control analysis that has hardly been
touched until now...

Athel

Home page: http://ir2lcb.cnrs-mrs.fr/lcbpage/athel/home_page.html
MCA FAQ: http://ir2lcb.cnrs-mrs.fr/lcbpage/athel/mcafaq.html
MCA chapter from my book:
http://ir2lcb.cnrs-mrs.fr/lcbpage/athel/fek10/mcai.html


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