Edited by Kenneth B. Storey Wiley Press (2004) pp. 616. ISBN 0-471-41090-X (hbk) £76.50/ 108.40 (hbk)
Metabolism is the principal and indispensable manifestation of life that supports the life-long homeostasis of organisms. It comprises a number of specific pathways whose components are expressed and activated depending upon the organism's requirements and environmental conditions. The control mechanisms that regulate metabolic pathways remain fascinating signatures of fundamental ecological events and metabolic achievements in a species' life history. Functional metabolism provides a key data-mining strategy in the present post-genomic transition from the earlier heuristic, often empirical,description of biological functions to the qualitatively new disciplines of integrative physiology and functional genomics.
For the scientific community, Functional Metabolism: Regulation and Adaptation edited by Kenneth B. Storey provides the first comprehensive survey that covers metabolic subjects, from elementary thermodynamics and kinetics of enzymatic reactions to complex mechanisms of signal transduction and molecular control of transcription and...
