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Curbing the excesses of low demand

Athel Cornish-Bowden ()
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Athel Cornish-Bowden: Athel Cornish-Bowden is at Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, CNRS Aix-Marseille Université, BP 71, 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France.

Nature, 2013, vol. 500, issue 7461, 157-158

Abstract: Metabolic processes are regulated by the relative need for the end product, but this control mechanism may fail if demand is very low. A safety mechanism that copes with low demand has been discovered in bacteria. See Letter p.237

Date: 2013
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