title: The small world in biophysical systems structural properties of glycolysis and the TCA cycle in Escherichia coli.
abstract: It has been shown that the central metabolic network of Escherichia coli is of the small-world type. In this paper, we present that the metabolic network of glycolysis and TCA cycle as a part of the E. coli metabolism is also a small-world network. We found that the hubs of the studied network are consistent with those found in the complete metabolic network. The evolutionary meaning of this finding is discussed.
authors.affiliation: University of Maribor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Education, Koroska cesta 160, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Borut
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Krajnc
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marhl
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D002952:Citric Acid Cycle; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000378:metabolism*; D006019:Glycolysis; D013379:Substrate Specificity