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Bow ties, metabolism and disease

Csete, Marie, Doyle, John·2004·Trends in biotechnology

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Highly organized, universal structures underlying biological and technological networks mediate effective trade-offs among efficiency, robustness and evolvability, with predictable fragilities that can be used to understand disease pathogenesis. The aims of this article are to describe the features of one common organizational architecture in biology, the bow tie. Large-scale organizational frameworks such as the bow tie are necessary starting points for higher-resolution modeling of complex biologic processes

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  • The metabolic and dopamine systems are examples of nested layered architectures in which the dopamine bowtie subserves internal signals mediated by hypothalamic signaling.

    “These two systems can be viewed as examples of nested layered architectures (111), in which the DA bowtie subserves the internal signals mediated by hypothalamic signaling (Figure 2C).”

    From The Addictive Dimensionality of Obesity (2013) · cites this paper as [111]

  • The human brain is organized as a layered architecture of interactive networks, sometimes called a bowtie, in which many inputs converge onto a small number of processes and then fan out into diverse outputs.

    “The human brain is a complex biological system that is organized in the layered architecture of interactive networks, sometimes called bowtie (111), whereby a narrowing funnel of many potential inputs converges onto a relatively small number of processes before fanning out again into a diversity of outputs.”

    From The Addictive Dimensionality of Obesity (2013) · cites this paper as [111]

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Authors
Csete, M., & Doyle, J.
Affiliations
  • Emory University (US)
  • California Institute of Technology (US)
Corresponding author
  • Csete, Marie
  • Doyle, John
Venue
Trends in biotechnology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2004-09
Volume
22
Issue
9
Pages
446-450
ISSN
0167-7799 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2120661262
Cited by
468
References
16
Citations by year
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FWCI
8.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Trends in biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute on Aging (P01 AG-20591, P01AG020591)
  • Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
Keywords
biological networks, network organization, metabolic networks, pathogenesis, network fragility, robustness, evolvability, efficiency-robustness trade-off
MeSH terms
Diabetes Mellitus, Disease, Glucose, Homeostasis, Metabolism, Models, Biological, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Computational Biology, Systems Biology

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