Dramatic reduction of dimensionality in large biochemical networks due to strong pair correlations

Details Dramatic reduction of dimensionality in large biochemical networks due to strong pair correlations Dramatic reduction of dimensionality in large biochemical networks due to strong pair correlations

2012-01-24

arxiv.org/abs/1201.5082v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Quantitative Methods

22 pages, 4 figures, The supplementary material is available at http://planetx.nationwidechildrens.org/~jayajit/, accepted for

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Large multidimensionality of high-throughput datasets pertaining to cell signaling and gene regulation renders it difficult to extract mechanisms underlying the complex kinetics involving various biochemical compounds (e.g., proteins, lipids). Data-driven models often circumvent this difficulty by using pair correlations of the protein expression levels to produce a small numbers (<10) of principal components, each a linear combination of the concentrations, to successfully model how cells respond to different stimuli. However, it is not understood if this reduction is specific to a particular biological system or to nature of the stimuli used in these experiments. We study temporal changes in pair correlations described by the covariance matrix between different molecular species that evolve following deterministic mass action kinetics in large biologically relevant reaction networks and show that this dramatic reduction of dimensions (from hundreds to <5) arises from the strong correlations between different species at any time and is in sensitive of the form of the nonlinear interactions, network architecture and values of rate constants and concentrations over a wide range. We relate temporal changes in the eigenvalue spectrum of the covariance matrix to low-dimensional, local changes in directions of the trajectory embedded in much larger dimensions using elementary differential geometry. We illustrate how to extract biologically relevant insights such as identifying significant time scales and groups of correlated chemical species from our analysis. Our work provides for the first time a theoretical underpinning for the successful experimental analysis and points to way to extract mechanisms from large- scale high throughput data sets.

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