Physics – Biological Physics
Scientific paper
2009-05-25
Physics
Biological Physics
15 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
A rigorous mathematical framework for analyzing the chemical master equation (CME) with bistability, based on the theory of large deviation, is proposed. Using a simple phosphorylation-dephosphorylation cycle with feedback as an example, we show that a nonequilibrium steady-state (NESS) phase transition occurs in the system which has all the characteristics of classic equilibrium phase transition: Maxwell construction, discontinuous fraction of phosphorylation as a function of the kinase activity, and Lee-Yang's zero for the generating function. The cusp in nonlinear bifurcation theory matches the tricritical point of the phase transition. The mathematical analysis suggests three distinct time scales, and related mathematical descriptions, of (i) molecular signaling, (ii) biochemical network dynamics, and (iii) cellular evolution. The (i) and (iii) are stochastic while (ii) is deterministic.
Ge Hao
Qian Hong
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