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代谢途径的随机波动

Stochastic fluctuations in metabolic pathways

Erel Levine, Terence Hwa

摘要:

活细胞中分子丰度的波动可能会影响其生长和健康。对于调节分子(例如,信号蛋白或转录因子),其表达的波动可影响网络中下游靶标的水平。在这里,我们开发了一个分析框架,以研究分子网络中的噪声相关现象。具体来说,我们专注于代谢网络,这是高度相互联系的,和噪声属性可能会限制其结构和功能。的动力学之间的类比的线性代谢途径和完全可溶的线性代谢网络,或者,一个质量传递系统,我们推导出大量的结果关于波动的中间代谢产物在各种常见的图案的代谢网络。对于所有,但一种情况下检查,我们发现在不同节点的路径的稳态波动是有效的不相关。因此,酶水平的波动只影响局部性质,不会传播到其他地方进入代谢网络,中间代谢物可以自由地由不同的反应共享。我们的方法可能适用于研究具有更复杂拓扑结构的代谢网络,或受类似生化反应支配的蛋白质信号网络。代谢数据的生物信息学分析的可能影响进行了讨论。

英文摘要:

Fluctuations in the abundance of molecules in the living cell may affect its growth and well being. For regulatory molecules (e.g., signaling proteins or transcription factors), fluctuations in their expression can affect the levels of downstream targets in a network. Here, we develop an analytic framework to investigate the phenomenon of noise correlation in molecular networks. Specifically, we focus on the metabolic network, which is highly inter-linked, and noise properties may constrain its structure and function. Motivated by the analogy between the dynamics of a linear metabolic pathway and that of the exactly soluable linear queueing network or, alternatively, a mass transfer system, we derive a plethora of results concerning fluctuations in the abundance of intermediate metabolites in various common motifs of the metabolic network. For all but one case examined, we find the steady-state fluctuation in different nodes of the pathways to be effectively uncorrelated. Consequently, fluctuations in enzyme levels only affect local properties and do not propagate elsewhere into metabolic networks, and intermediate metabolites can be freely shared by different reactions. Our approach may be applicable to study metabolic networks with more complex topologies, or protein signaling networks which are governed by similar biochemical reactions. Possible implications for bioinformatic analysis of metabolimic data are discussed.

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