A Novel Methodology to Estimate Metabolic Flux Distributions in Constraint-Based Models
Massucci, Francesco Alessandro (Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Enginyeria Química)
Font-Clos, Francesc (Centre de Recerca Matemàtica)
De Martino, Andrea (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza". Dipartimento di Fisica)
Pérez Castillo, Isaac (King's College London. Department of Mathematics)

Fecha:	2013
Resumen:	Quite generally, constraint-based metabolic flux analysis describes the space of viable flux configurations for a metabolic network as a high-dimensional polytope defined by the linear constraints that enforce the balancing of production and consumption fluxes for each chemical species in the system. In some cases, the complexity of the solution space can be reduced by performing an additional optimization, while in other cases, knowing the range of variability of fluxes over the polytope provides a sufficient characterization of the allowed configurations. There are cases, however, in which the thorough information encoded in the individual distributions of viable fluxes over the polytope is required. Obtaining such distributions is known to be a highly challenging computational task when the dimensionality of the polytope is sufficiently large, and the problem of developing cost-effective ad hoc algorithms has recently seen a major surge of interest. Here, we propose a method that allows us to perform the required computation heuristically in a time scaling linearly with the number of reactions in the network, overcoming some limitations of similar techniques employed in recent years. As a case study, we apply it to the analysis of the human red blood cell metabolic network, whose solution space can be sampled by different exact techniques, like Hit-and-Run Monte Carlo (scaling roughly like the third power of the System size). Remarkably accurate estimates for the true distributions of viable reaction fluxes are obtained, suggesting that, although further improvements are desirable, our method enhances our ability to analyze the space of allowed configurations for large biochemical reaction networks.
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Materia:	Metabolic networks ; Flux balance analysis ; Belief propagation algorithm
Publicado en:	Metabolites, Vol. 3 Núm. 3 (september 2013) , p. 838-852, ISSN 2218-1989

DOI: 10.3390/metabo3030838
PMID: 24958152

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