n-site phosphorylation systems with 2n-1 steady states

DOI10.1007/S11538-014-9984-0zbMATH Open1300.92028arXiv1312.4774OpenAlexW1998160025WikidataQ51066548 ScholiaQ51066548MaRDI QIDQ467732FDOQ467732

Authors: D. Flockerzi, Katharina Holstein, Carsten Conradi 

Publication date: 5 November 2014

Published in: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Multisite protein phosphorylation plays a prominent role in intracellular processes like signal transduction, cell-cycle control and nuclear signal integration. Many proteins are phosphorylated in a sequential and distributive way at more than one phosphorylation site. Mathematical models of $n$-site sequential distributive phosphorylation are therefore studied frequently. In particular, in {em Wang and Sontag, 2008,} it is shown that models of $n$-site sequential distributive phosphorylation admit at most $2n-1$ steady states. Wang and Sontag furthermore conjecture that for odd $n$, there are at most $n$ and that, for even $n$, there are at most $n+1$ steady states. This, however, is not true: building on earlier work in {em Holstein et.al., 2013}, we present a scalar determining equation for multistationarity which will lead to parameter values where a $3$-site system has $5$ steady states and parameter values where a $4$-site system has $7$ steady states. Our results therefore are counterexamples to the conjecture of Wang and Sontag. We furthermore study the inherent geometric properties of multistationarity in $n$-site sequential distributive phosphorylation: the complete vector of steady state ratios is determined by the steady state ratios of free enzymes and unphosphorylated protein and there exists a linear relationship between steady state ratios of phosphorylated protein.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4774

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zbMATH Keywords

determining equationmass-action kineticsmultistationaritysequential-distributed phosphorylation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40) Cell biology (92C37)

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