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2005 IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB'05)
Application of a Generalized MWC Model for the Mathematical Simulation of Metabolic Pathways Regulated by Allosteric Enzymes
Stanford, California
August 08-August 11
ISBN: 0-7695-2344-7
Tarek S. Najdi, University of California at Irvine
Chin-Rang Yang, University of California at Irvine
Bruce E. Shapiro, California Institute of Technology
G. Wesley Hatfield, University of California at Irvine
Eric D. Mjolsness, University of California at Irvine
In our effort to elucidate the systems biology of the model organism, Escherichia coli, we have developed a mathematical model that simulates the allosteric regulation for threonine biosynthesis pathway starting from aspartate. To achieve this goal, we used kMech, a Cellerator language extension that describes enzyme mechanisms for the mathematical modeling of metabolic pathways. These mechanisms are converted by Cellerator into ordinary differential equations (ODEs) solvable by Mathematica™. In this paper, we describe a more flexible model in Cellerator, which generalizes the Monod, Wyman, Changeux (MWC) model for enzyme allosteric regulation to allow for multiple substrate, activator and inhibitor binding sites. Furthermore, we have developed a model that describes the behavior of the bifunctional allosteric enzyme aspartate Kinase I-Homoserine Dehydrogenase I (AKI-HDHI). This model predicts the partition of enzyme activities in the steady state which paves a way for a more generalized prediction of the behavior of bifunctional enzymes.
Citation:
Tarek S. Najdi, Chin-Rang Yang, Bruce E. Shapiro, G. Wesley Hatfield, Eric D. Mjolsness, "Application of a Generalized MWC Model for the Mathematical Simulation of Metabolic Pathways Regulated by Allosteric Enzymes," csb, pp.279-288, 2005 IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB'05), 2005
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