scholarly journals Reduced linear noise approximation for biochemical reaction networks with time-scale separation: The stochastic tQSSA+

2018 ◽  
Vol 148 (9) ◽  
pp. 094108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narmada Herath ◽  
Domitilla Del Vecchio
2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (97) ◽  
pp. 20140054 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bence Mélykúti ◽  
João P. Hespanha ◽  
Mustafa Khammash

Many biochemical reaction networks are inherently multiscale in time and in the counts of participating molecular species. A standard technique to treat different time scales in the stochastic kinetics framework is averaging or quasi-steady-state analysis: it is assumed that the fast dynamics reaches its equilibrium (stationary) distribution on a time scale where the slowly varying molecular counts are unlikely to have changed. We derive analytic equilibrium distributions for various simple biochemical systems, such as enzymatic reactions and gene regulation models. These can be directly inserted into simulations of the slow time-scale dynamics. They also provide insight into the stimulus–response of these systems. An important model for which we derive the analytic equilibrium distribution is the binding of dimer transcription factors (TFs) that first have to form from monomers. This gene regulation mechanism is compared to the cases of the binding of simple monomer TFs to one gene or to multiple copies of a gene, and to the cases of the cooperative binding of two or multiple TFs to a gene. The results apply equally to ligands binding to enzyme molecules.


1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 5799-5804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya Kumar ◽  
Panagiotis D. Christofides ◽  
Prodromos Daoutidis

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