Flows in complex biochemical networks: Role of low degree nodes

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2010-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/1012.0917v1

Biobytes (2009)

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Molecular Networks

6 pages

Scientific paper

Metabolic networks have two properties that are generally regarded as unrelated: One, they have metabolic reactions whose single knockout is lethal for the organism, and two, they have correlated sets of reactions forming functional modules. In this review we argue that both essentiality and modularity seem to arise as a consequence of the same structural property: the existence of low degree metabolites. This observation allows a prediction of (a) essential metabolic reactions which are potential drug targets in pathogenic microorganisms and (b) regulatory modules within biological networks, from purely structural information about the metabolic network.

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