Flux networks in metabolic graphs

Details Flux networks in metabolic graphs Flux networks in metabolic graphs

2008-08-03

arxiv.org/abs/0808.0321v2

Phys. Biol. v6, 046006 (2009)

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Molecular Networks

9 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX 4.0, supplementary data available (excel)

Scientific paper

A metabolic model can be represented as bipartite graph comprising linked reaction and metabolite nodes. Here it is shown how a network of conserved fluxes can be assigned to the edges of such a graph by combining the reaction fluxes with a conserved metabolite property such as molecular weight. A similar flux network can be constructed by combining the primal and dual solutions to the linear programming problem that typically arises in constraint-based modelling. Such constructions may help with the visualisation of flux distributions in complex metabolic networks. The analysis also explains the strong correlation observed between metabolite shadow prices (the dual linear programming variables) and conserved metabolite properties. The methods were applied to recent metabolic models for Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Methanosarcina barkeri. Detailed results are reported for E. coli; similar results were found for the other organisms.

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