Inherent size constraints on prokaryote gene networks due to "accelerating" growth

Details Inherent size constraints on prokaryote gene networks due to "accelerating" growth Inherent size constraints on prokaryote gene networks due to "accelerating" growth

2003-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0312021v2

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Molecular Networks

Corrected error in biological input parameter: 15 pages, 10 figures

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Networks exhibiting "accelerating" growth have total link numbers growing faster than linearly with network size and can exhibit transitions from stationary to nonstationary statistics and from random to scale-free to regular statistics at particular critical network sizes. However, if for any reason the network cannot tolerate such gross structural changes then accelerating networks are constrained to have sizes below some critical value. This is of interest as the regulatory gene networks of single celled prokaryotes are characterized by an accelerating quadratic growth and are size constrained to be less than about 10,000 genes encoded in DNA sequence of less than about 10 megabases. This paper presents a probabilistic accelerating network model for prokaryotic gene regulation which closely matches observed statistics by employing two classes of network nodes (regulatory and non-regulatory) and directed links whose inbound heads are exponentially distributed over all nodes and whose outbound tails are preferentially attached to regulatory nodes and described by a scale free distribution. This model explains the observed quadratic growth in regulator number with gene number and predicts an upper prokaryote size limit closely approximating the observed value.

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