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Switching dynamics in reaction networks induced by molecular discreteness

Yuichi Togashi1 and Kunihiko Kaneko2,3

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To study the fluctuations and dynamics in chemical reaction processes, stochastic differential equations based on the rate equation involving chemical concentrations are often adopted. When the number of molecules is very small, however, the discreteness in the number of molecules cannot be neglected since the number of molecules must be an integer. This discreteness can be important in biochemical reactions, where the total number of molecules is not significantly larger than the number of chemical species. To elucidate the effects of such discreteness, we study autocatalytic reaction systems comprising several chemical species through stochastic particle simulations. The generation of novel states is observed; it is caused by the extinction of some molecular species due to the discreteness in their number. We demonstrate that the reaction dynamics are switched by a single molecule, which leads to the reconstruction of the acting network structure. We also show the strong dependence of the chemical concentrations on the system size, which is caused by transitions to discreteness-induced novel states.


PACS

87.15.R- Reactions and kinetics

87.15.A- Theory, modeling, and computer simulation

02.50.Fz Stochastic analysis

87.15.Ya Fluctuations

87.15.H- Dynamics of biomolecules

82.39.Rt Reactions in complex biological systems

Subjects

Computational physics

Biological physics

Chemical physics and physical chemistry

Dates

Issue 6 (14 February 2007)

Received 29 July 2006

Published 22 January 2007



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