When can time-dependent currents be reproduced by the Landauer steady-state approximation?

2017 ◽  
Vol 146 (17) ◽  
pp. 174101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Carey ◽  
Liping Chen ◽  
Bing Gu ◽  
Ignacio Franco
1990 ◽  
Vol 269 (3) ◽  
pp. 697-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Acerenza ◽  
H Kacser

It is usual to study the sensitivity of metabolic variables to small (infinitesimal) changes in the magnitudes of individual parameters such as an enzyme concentration. Here, the effect that a simultaneous change in all the enzyme concentrations by the same factor alpha (Co-ordinate-Control Operation, CCO) has on the variables of time-dependent metabolic systems is investigated. This factor alpha can have any arbitrary large value. First, we assume, for each enzyme measured in isolation, the validity of the steady-state approximation and the proportionality between reaction rate and enzyme concentration. Under these assumptions, any time-invariant variable may behave like a metabolite concentration, i.e. S alpha = Sr (S-type), or like a flux, i.e. J alpha = alpha Jr (J-type). The subscripts r and alpha correspond to the values of the variable before and after the CCO respectively. Similarly, time-dependent variables may behave according to S alpha (t/alpha) = Sr (t) (S-type) or to J alpha (t/alpha) = alpha J r (t) (J-type). A method is given to test these relationships in experimental systems, and to quantify deviations from the predicted behaviour. A positive test for deviations proves the violation of some of the assumptions made. However, the breakdown of the assumptions in an enzyme-catalysed reaction, studied in isolation, may or may not affect significantly the behaviour of the system when the component reaction is embedded in the metabolic network.


1998 ◽  
Vol 75 (9) ◽  
pp. 1158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. B. Bond ◽  
Bice S. Martincigh ◽  
Janusz R. Mika ◽  
Reuben H. Simoyi

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