Growth-induced instability in metabolic networks. Author Sidhartha Goyal, Ned Wingreen Publication Year 2007 Type Journal Article Abstract Product-feedback inhibition is a ubiquitous regulatory scheme for maintaining homeostasis in living cells. Individual metabolic pathways with product-feedback inhibition are stable as long as one pathway step is rate limiting. However, pathways are often coupled both by the use of a common substrate and by stoichiometric utilization of their products for cell growth. We show that such a coupled network with product-feedback inhibition may exhibit limit-cycle oscillations which arise via a Hopf bifurcation. Our results highlight novel evolutionary constraints on the architecture of metabolism. Keywords Algorithms, Kinetics, Homeostasis, Biological Evolution, Cells, Cell Growth Processes, Feedback Journal Phys Rev Lett Volume 98 Issue 13 Pages 138105 Date Published 03/2007 Alternate Journal Phys. Rev. Lett. Google ScholarBibTeXEndNote X3 XML