A graph-theoretical analysis of metabolic regulation.

A graph theoretical method is proposed for modeling metabolic networks including enzymic cascades and synergistic binding of ligands to enzymes. Formal operations on the graph of a given network leads to the identification of feedback metabolites and the enzymes which regulate the feedback. These systemic properties are thus isolated from the purely local regulation of individual enzymes. The method was applied to a model of glycogen metabolism. At low cyclic AMP and insulin levels feedback control of the system is predicted to be largely with the glycogen branching and debranching enzymes, which set the amount of glycogen in the metabolically available outer branches.

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