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代谢鲁棒性和网络模块化:一个模型研究

Metabolic robustness and network modularity: A model study

Petter Holme

摘要:

[背景]一些研究提到了网络模块性-网络可以很容易地分解为内部密集连接和彼此之间弱连接的子图-作为影响代谢鲁棒性的因素。在本文中,我们直接在一个新陈代谢模型系统中测量网络模块性和鲁棒性的几个方面之间的关系。[方法/主要发现]通过使用一个模型来生成化学反应系统,其中可以调整网络模块化,我们发现,鲁棒性随着代谢物浓度变化的模块化而增加,而随着酶表达的变化而减少。同样的模块化比例也适用于扰动后的弛豫速度。[结论/意义]模块性不是使代谢或多或少稳健的一般原则;这个问题需要针对系统的不同类型的扰动来具体解决。

英文摘要:

[Background] Several studies have mentioned network modularity -- that a network can easily be decomposed into subgraphs that are densely connected within and weakly connected between each other -- as a factor affecting metabolic robustness. In this paper we measure the relation between network modularity and several aspects of robustness directly in a model system of metabolism. [Methodology/Principal Findings] By using a model for generating chemical reaction systems where one can tune the network modularity, we find that robustness increases with modularity for changes in the concentrations of metabolites, whereas it decreases with changes in the expression of enzymes. The same modularity scaling is true for the speed of relaxation after the perturbations. [Conclusions/Significance] Modularity is not a general principle for making metabolism either more or less robust; this question needs to be addressed specifically for different types of perturbations of the system.

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