Growth-induced instability in metabolic networks.
Publication Year
2007
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Product-feedback inhibition is a ubiquitous regulatory scheme for maintaining homeostasis in living cells. Individual metabolic pathways with product-feedback inhibition are stable as long as one pathway step is rate limiting. However, pathways are often coupled both by the use of a common substrate and by stoichiometric utilization of their products for cell growth. We show that such a coupled network with product-feedback inhibition may exhibit limit-cycle oscillations which arise via a Hopf bifurcation. Our results highlight novel evolutionary constraints on the architecture of metabolism.
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Journal
Phys Rev Lett
Volume
98
Issue
13
Pages
138105
Date Published
03/2007
ISSN Number
0031-9007
Alternate Journal
Phys. Rev. Lett.
PMID
17501245