Nonlinear Self-organization Dynamics of a Metabolic Process of the Krebs Cycle

Abstract

The present work continues studies of the mathematical model of a metabolic process of the Krebs cycle. We study the dependence of its cyclicity on the cell respiration intensity determined by the formation level of carbon dioxide. We constructed the phase-parametric characteristic of the consumption of a substrate by a cell depending on the intensity of the metabolic process of formation of the final product of the oxidation. The scenarios of all possible oscillatory modes of the system are constructed and studied. The bifurcations with period doubling and with formation of chaotic modes are found. Their attractors are constructed. The full spectra of indices and divergencies for the obtained modes, the values of KS-entropies, horizons of predictability, and Lyapunov dimensions of strange attractors are calculated. Some conclusions about the structural-functional connections of the cycle of tricarboxylic acids and their influence on the stability of the metabolic process in a cell are presented.