Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction Introductory Outlines Metabolic and Cellular Engineering in the Context of Bioprocess Engineering Tools for Metabolic and Cellular Engineering Engineering Cells for Specific Biotransformations Metabolic Areas that Have Been Subjected to MCE From DNA Sequence to Biological Function Temporal and Spatial Scaling in Cellular Processes Scaling in Microbial and Biochemical Systems Views of the Cell Transduction and Intracellular Signalling Self-organized Emergent Phenomena Homeodynamics and Coherence Matter and Energy Balances Mass Balance Energy Balance Cell Growth and Metabolite Production.Basic Concepts Microbial Growth under Steady and Balanced Conditions Microbial Energetics under Steady State Conditions Growth Kinetics under Steady State Conditions The Dilution Rate and the Growth-limiting Substrate Concentration Bionmass and Growth-limiting Substrate Concentration at the Steady State Growth as a Balance of Fluxes The Flux Coordination Hypothesis Toward a Rational Design of Cells Redirecting Central Metabolic Pathways under Kinetic or Thermodynamic Control Thermodynamic or Kinetic Control of Flux under Steady State Conditions Kinetic and Thermodynamic Limitations in Microbial Systems.Case Studies Increasing Carbon Flow to Aromatic Biosynthesis in Eschericahia coli Methods of Quantitation of Cellular"Processes Performance" Stoichiometry of Growth:The Equivalence between Biochemical Stoichiometries and physiological Parameters A General Formalism for Metabolic Flux Analysis A Comparison between Different Methods of MFA Metabolic Fluxes during Balanced and Steady State Growth Bioenergetic and Physiological Studies in Batch and Continuous Cultures.Genetic or Epigenetic Redirection of Metabolic Flux Metabolic Control Analysis Control and Regulation The Control of Metabolites Concentration The TDA Approach as Applied to the Rational Design of Microorganisms:Increase of Ethanol Production in Yeast Appendix A Appendix B Dynamic Aspects of Bioprocess Behavior Transient and Oscillatory States of Continuous Culture Mathematical Model Building Transient Responses of Microbial Cultures to Perturbations of the Steady State Oscillatory Phenomena in Continuous Cultures Bioprocess Development with Plant Cells MCE in Plants:Realities and Potentialities Improving Plants through Genetic Engineering Using Plant Genetic Engineering to Produce Heterologous Proteins Tools for the Manipulation and Transformation of Plants Plant Metabolism:Matter and Energy Flows and the Prospects of MCA Metabolic Compartmentation in Plant Cells Carbon Assimilation,Partitioning and Allocation Carbon fixation in higher plants MCA Studies in Plants Regulation and Control:Starch Synthesis,a Case Study Concluding Remarks Cellular Engineering Outline The Global Functioning of Metabolic Networks Cellular Engineering Growth Rate,G1 Phase of the Cell Cycle,Production of Metabolites and Macromolecules as Targets for Cellular Engineering Catabolite Repression and Cell Cycle Regulation in Yeast Protein Production as a Function of Growth Rate The Selective Functioning of Whole Metabolic Pathways is Permissive for Differentiation Bibliography Index