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### Goldbeter–Koshland kinetics

A kinase Y and a phosphatase X that act on a protein Z; one possible application for the Goldbeter–Koshland kinetics

The Goldbeter–Koshland kinetics describe a steady-state solution for a 2-state biological system. In this system, the interconversion between these two states is performed by two enzymes with opposing effect. One example would be a protein Z that exists in a phosphorylated form ZP and in an unphosphorylated form Z; the corresponding kinase Y and phosphatase X interconvert the two forms. In this case we would be interested in the equilibrium concentration of the protein Z (Goldbeter–Koshland kinetics only describe equilibrium properties, thus no dynamics can be modeled). It has many applications in the description of biological systems.

The Goldbeter–Koshland kinetics is described by the Goldbeter–Koshland function:

\begin{align} z = \frac\\ \end{align}

with the constants

\begin{align} v_1 = k_1 [X] ; \ v_2 &= k_2 [Y] ; \ J_1 = \frac{K_{M1}}{dt} \ \stackrel{!}{=}\ 0 \end{align}

From Michaelis–Menten kinetics we know that the rate at which ZP is dephosphorylated is r_1 = \frac{k_1 [X] [Z_P]}{K_{M1}+ [Z_P]} and the rate at which Z is phosphorylated is r_2 = \frac{k_2 [Y] [Z]}{K_{M2}+ [Z]}. Here the KM stand for the Michaelis–Menten constant which describes how well the enzymes X and Y bind and catalyze the conversion whereas the kinetic parameters k1 and k2 denote the rate constants for the catalyzed reactions. Assuming that the total concentration of Z is constant we can additionally write that [Z]0 = [ZP] + [Z] and we thus get:

\begin{align} \frac{d[Z]}{dt} = r_1 - r_2 = \frac{k_1 [X] ([Z]_0 - [Z])}{K_{M1}+ ([Z]_0 - [Z])} &-\frac{k_2 [Y] [Z]}{K_{M2}+ [Z]} = 0 \\ \frac{k_1 [X] ([Z]_0 - [Z])}{K_{M1}+ ([Z]_0 - [Z])} &= \frac{k_2 [Y] [Z]}{K_{M2}+ [Z]} \\ \frac{k_1 [X] (1- \frac{\frac{K_{M2}} \\ \frac{v_1 (1- z)}{J_1+ (1 - z)} &= \frac{v_2 z}{J_2+ z} \qquad \qquad (1) \end{align}

with the constants

\begin{align} z = \frac{2 (v_2 - v_1)} &= \frac{B - \sqrt{B^2 - 4 (v_2 - v_1) v_1 J_2}}{2 (v_2 - v_1)} \cdot \frac{B + \sqrt{B^2 - 4 (v_2 - v_1) v_1 J_2}}{B + \sqrt{B^2 - 4 (v_2 - v_1) v_1 J_2}}\\ z &= \frac{ 4 (v_2 - v_1) v_1 J_2}{2 (v_2 - v_1)} \cdot \frac{1}{B + \sqrt{B^2 - 4 (v_2 - v_1) v_1 J_2}}\\ z &= \frac{ 2 v_1 J_2}{B + \sqrt{B^2 - 4 (v_2 - v_1) v_1 J_2}}. \qquad \qquad (3) \end{align}

Thus (3) is a solution to the initial equilibrium problem and describes the equilibrium concentration of [Z] and [ZP] as a function of the kinetic parameters of the phosphorylation and dephosphorylation reaction and the concentrations of the kinase and phosphatase. The solution is the Goldbeter–Koshland function with the constants from (2):

\begin{align} z = \frac.\\ \end{align}

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