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计算生物化学网络中的通量和化学势分布:人体红细胞的能量平衡分析

Computing fluxes and chemical potential distributions in biochemical networks: energy balance analysis of the human red blood cell

Daniele De Martino, Matteo Figliuzzi, Andrea De Martino, Enzo Marinari

摘要:

生化反应网络的非平衡稳态分析依赖于找到满足化学计量(质量平衡)和热力学(能量平衡)约束的通量和化学势的配置。探索这些状态的有效方法对于预测反应方向性、计算变异的生理范围、估计相关性以及从底层分子过程重建网络的整体能量平衡至关重要。虽然目前有不同的技术可以对质量平衡约束产生的空间进行采样,但热力学通常很难结合。在这里,我们介绍了一种方法来采样的自由能景观的反应网络在稳态。在其最一般的形式中,它允许从可能包含先前生化信息的试验函数开始计算通量和浓度的分布。我们将我们的方法应用于人体红细胞的代谢网络,其质量平衡的通量状态的空间已被广泛采样,在最近几年。具体而言,我们配置文件的物理可行的通量配置,详细描述如何波动的通量和潜力的相关。在此基础上,我们推导出细胞的能量平衡的熵产生,化学功和热力学效率。

英文摘要:

The analysis of non-equilibrium steady states of biochemical reaction networks relies on finding the configurations of fluxes and chemical potentials satisfying stoichiometric (mass balance) and thermodynamic (energy balance) constraints. Efficient methods to explore such states are crucial to predict reaction directionality, calculate physiologic ranges of variability, estimate correlations, and reconstruct the overall energy balance of the network from the underlying molecular processes. While different techniques for sampling the space generated by mass balance constraints are currently available, thermodynamics is generically harder to incorporate. Here we introduce a method to sample the free energy landscape of a reaction network at steady state. In its most general form, it allows to calculate distributions of fluxes and concentrations starting from trial functions that may contain prior biochemical information. We apply our method to the human red blood cell's metabolic network, whose space of mass-balanced flux states has been sampled extensively in recent years. Specifically, we profile its thermodynamically feasible flux configurations, characterizing in detail how fluctuations of fluxes and potentials are correlated. Based on this, we derive the cell's energy balance in terms of entropy production, chemical work done and thermodynamic efficiency.

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