Albers, S.V., Birkeland, N.K., Driessen, A.J.M., Gertig, S., Haferkamp, P., Klenk, H.P., ...
SulfoSYS (Sulfolobus Systems Biology) focuses on the study of the CCM (central carbohydrate metabolism) of Sulfolobus solfataricus and its regulation under temperature variation at the systems level....
Herrgård, M.J., Swainston, N., Dobson, P., Dunn, W.B., Arga, K.Y., Arvas, M., ...
Genomic data allow the large-scale manual or semi-automated assembly of metabolic network reconstructions, which provide highly curated organism-specific knowledge bases. Although several...
Herrgård, M. J., Swainston, N., Dobson, P., Dunn, W. B., Arga, K. Y., Arvas, Mikko, ...
Nature Biotechnology Vol.26 Nr.10, 1155 - 1160
Networks: A New Summation Law (2007)
M. A. Peletier, H. V. Westerhoff, B. N. Kholodenko, Mark A. Peletier, Hans V. Westerhoff, Boris N. Kholodenko
Control of spatially heterogeneous and time-varying cellular reaction networks: a new summation law
C. Francke, P. W. Postma, H. V. Westerhoff, J. G. Blom, M. A. Peletier, Christof Francke, ...
Why the phosphotransferase system of Escherichia coli escapes the diffusion limitation of signal transduction, transport and metabolism that confronts mammalian cells
Standardization and 'in vivo'-like enzyme activity measurements in yeast. (2007)
Bouwman, J., Van Eunen, K., Tuzun, I., Postmus, J., Canelas, A., ...
Daran-Lapujade, P., Rossell, S., Gulik, W.M. Van, Slijper, M., ...
Metabolic fluxes may be regulated ‘‘hierarchically,’’ e.g., by changes of gene expression that adjust enzyme capacities (Vmax) and/or ‘‘metabolically’’ by interactions of enzymes with...
Standardization and 'in vivo'-like enzyme activity measurements in yeast. (2007)
Bouwman, J., Van Eunen, K., Tuzun, I., Postmus, J., Canelas, A., ...
Lloyd-Smith, J O, Getz, W M, Westerhoff, H V
We explore the transmission process for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). We derive the classical frequency-dependent incidence mechanistically from a pair-formation model, using an approximation...
Control analysis of trophic chains (2003)
Getz, Wayne M, Westerhoff, H V, Hofmeyr, JHS, Snoep, J L
Inspired by the application of metabolic control analysis (MCA) to biochemical networks, we conduct a generalized sensitivity analysis of the equilibrium of a set of differential equations used to...
Why the phosphotransferase system of Escherichia coli escapes diffusion limitation. (2003)
Francke, C., Postma, P.W., Westerhoff, H.V., Blom, J.G., Peletier, M.A.
DNA supercoiling by gyrase is linked to nucleoid compaction. (2002)
Stuger, R., Woldringh, C.L., Vischer, N.O.E., Bakker, B.M., ...
Otten, M.F., Reijnders, W.N.M., Westerhoff, H.V., Ludwig, B.
Paracoccus denitrificans strains with mutations in the genes encoding the cytochrome c550, c552, or c1 and in combinations of these genes were constructed, and their growth characteristics were...
Autoamplificationof a two-component regulatory system results in "learning" behavior. (2001)
Hoffer, S.M., Westerhoff, H.V., Hellingwerf, K.J., Postma, P.W., Tomassen, J.
Rotterdam, B.J. Van, Westerhoff, H.V., Visschers, R.W., Bloch, D.A., Hellingwerf, K.J., Jones, M.R., ...
Efficient redirecting of metabolic fluxes in L.lactis using metabolic control analysis (2000)
Hoefnagel, M.H.N., Martens, D.E., Hugenholtz, J., Westerhoff, H.V., Snoep, J.L.
Rotterdam, B.J. Van, Westerhoff, H.V., Visschers, R.W., Jones, M.R., Hellingwerf, K.J., Crielaard, W.
Cellular information transfer regarded from a stoichiometry and control analysis perspective. (2000)
Transduction of intracellular and intercellular dynamics in yeast glycolytic oscillations. (2000)
Wolf, J., Passarge, J., Somsen, O.J.G., Snoep, J.L., Heinrich, R., Westerhoff, H.V.
Macromolecular intelligence in microorganisms (2000)
Bruggeman, F.J., Heeswijk, W.C. Van, Boogerd, F.C., Westerhoff, H.V.
Metabolic control from the back benches: Biochemistry towards biocomplexity (2000)
Westerhoff, H.V., Teusink, B., Mensonides, F.I.C., Reijenga, K.A., Esgalhado, E., Kholodenko, B.N., ...
Compartmentation protects trypasonomes from the dangerous design of glycolysis. (2000)
Bakker, B.M., Mensonides, F.I.C., Teusink, B., Hoek, P. Van, Michels, P.A.M., Westerhoff, H.V.
Relating multidrug resistance phenotypes to the kinetic properties of their drug-efflux pumps (2000)
Control analysis of metabolic systems involving quasi-equilibrium reactions. (1999)
Kholodenko, B.N., Garcia, J., Westerhoff, H.V., Cascante, M.
What controls glycolysis in bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei (1999)
Bakker, B.M., Michels, P.A.M., Opperdoes, F.R., Westerhoff, H.V.
Thermodynamics of complexity. The live cell (1998)
Westerhoff, H.V., Jensen, P.R., Snoep, J.L., Kholodenko, B.N.
Inplications of macromolecular crowding for signal transduction and metabolite channeling (1998)
Rohwer, J.M., Postma, P.W., Kholodenko, B.N., Westerhoff, H.V.
Hierarchical control of electron-transfer (1998)
Westerhoff, H.V., Jensen, P.R., Egger, L., Heeswijk, W.C. Van, Kholodenko, B.N., ...
BTK traditions and perspectives: Complex biothermokinetics and control analysis (1998)
Westerhoff, H.V., Rotterdam, B.J. Van, Heeswijk, W.C. Van, Kholodenko, B.N.
Control of the F1F0ATP synthase on cell metabolism and growth in Saccharmyces cerevisiae (1998)
Raamsdonk, L.M., Berden, J.A., Westerhoff, H.V., Dam, K. Van
Thermodynamics of complexity. The live cell (1997)
Westerhoff, H.V., Jensen, P.R., Snoep, J.L., Kholodenko, B.N.
Simulation of the distribution of parental strains genomes in RC strains of mice (1997)
Moen, C.J., Stoffers, H.J., Hart, A.A.M., Westerhoff, H.V., Demant, P.
Direct transfer of control and multidrug resistance (1996)
Westerhoff, H.V., Rohwer, J.M., Heijn, M., Mulder, S., Ghauharali, R.I., Wielinga, P., ...
Control of dynamics and steady state: applications to multidrug resistance (1996)
Westerhoff, H.V., Bier, M., Molenaar, D., Spoelstra, E.C., Lankelma, J., Jongsma, A.P.M., ...
Nonlinear control and self-organization (1996)
Westerhoff, H.V., Jensen, P.R., Kahn, D., Kholodenko, B.N., Richard, P.
DNA supercoiling depends on the phosphorylation potential in Escherichia coli (1996)
Workum, M. Van, Oldenburg, N., Molenaar, D., Jensen, P.R., Snoep, J.L., ...
An alternative PII protein in the regulation of glutamine synthetase in Escherichia coli (1996)
Heeswijk, W.C. Van, Hoving, S., Molenaar, D., Stegeman, B., Kahn, D., Westerhoff, H.V.
Ntr: a signal transduction system with neural network characteristics? (1996)
West, W.S. Van, Heeswijk, W.C. Van, Westerhoff, H.V., Postma, P.W.
Synchronised heat-flux oscillations in yeast-cell populations (1996)
Teusink, B., Larsson, C., Diderich, J.A., Richard, P., Dam, K. Van, Gustafsson, L., ...
Control of glycolytic flux in Zymomonas mobilis by glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity (1996)
Snoep, J.L., Arfman, N., Yomano, L.P., Westerhoff, H.V., Conway, Y., Ingram, L.O.N.
Protein-protein interactions, metabolite channelling, and the control flux (1996)
Rohwer, J.M., Westerhoff, H.V., Kholodenko, B.N., Postma, P.W.
Sustained oscillations in free-energy state and hexose phosphates in yeast (1996)
Richard, P., Teusink, B., Hemker, M.B., Dam, K. Van, Westerhoff, H.V.
Control and regulation of channelled versus ideal pathways (1996)
Kholodenko, B.N., Cascante, M., Westerhoff, H.V., Kushmerick, M.J.
Strong control on the transit time in metabolic channelling (1996)
Kholodenko, B.N., Sakamoto, N., Puigjaner, J., Westerhoff, H.V., Cascante, M.
Cellular daunorubicin transport in human cancer (1996)
Lankelma, J., Westerhoff, H.V., Heijn, M., Broxterman, H.J., Pinedo, H.M.
Control over electron flow through the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centre. (1995)
Rotterdam, B.J. Van, Crielaard, W., Westerhoff, H.V., Hellingwerf, K.J.
Molecular biology for flux control (1995)
Jensen, P.R., Snoep, J.L., Molenaar, D., Heeswijk, W.C. Van, Kholodenko, B.N., ...
Energy buffering of DNA structure fails when Escherichia coli runs out of substrate. (1995)
Jensen, P.R., Loman, L., Petra, B., Weijden, C. Van Der, Westerhoff, H.V.
Dynamic aspects of cascade-type metabolic regulation (1995)
Molenaar, D., Kholodenko, B.N., Heeswijk, W.C. Van, Westerhoff, H.V.
Signal transduction in bacteria: phospho-neural network(s) in Escherichia coli? (1995)
Hellingwerf, K.J., Postma, P.W., Tommassen, J., Westerhoff, H.V.
Control in channelled pathways. A matrix method calculating the enzyme control coefficients (1995)
Kholodenko, B.N., Westerhoff, H.V., Puigjaner, J., Cascante, M.
Energy, control and DNA structure in the living cell. (1995)
Wijker, J.E., Jensen, P.R., Vaz Gomes, A., Waal, A. De, Workum, M. Van, Heeswijk, W.C. Van, ...
Control theory of cell metabolism: towards more realistic "non-ideal" systems. (1995)
Kholodenko, B.N., Cascante, M., Molenaar, D., Demin, O.V., Westerhoff, H.V.
Defining control coefficients in non-ideal metabolic pathways (1995)
Kholodenko, B.N., Molenaar, D., Schuster, S., Heinrich, R., Westerhoff, H.V.
Multiplicity of control. (1994)
Westerhoff, H.V., Jensen, P.R., Kahn, D., Kholodenko, B.N., Schuster, S., ...
Object oriented simulation of metabolic processes. (1994)
Stoffers, H.J., Stigt, B. Van, Richard, P., Westerhoff, H.V., Blommestijn, G.J.F.
Simulating cell metabolism in C**. (1994)
Stoffers, H.J., Blommestijn, G.J.F., Sonnhammer, E.L.L., Raat, N.J.H., Westerhoff, H.V.
Magainin oligomers reversibly dissipate DeltamuH in cytochrome oxidase liposomes. (1994)
Juretic, D., Hendler, R.W., Kamp, F., Caughey, W.S., Zasloff, M., Westerhoff, H.V.
Modulation of cellular energy state and DNA supercoiling in E. coli. (1994)
Jensen, P.R., Oldenburg, N., Petra, B., Michelsen, O., Westerhoff, H.V.
Control analysis of the dependence of Escherichia coli physiology on the H(+)-ATPase.
Jensen, P R, Michelsen, O, Westerhoff, H V
The H(+)-ATPase plays a central role in Escherichia coli free-energy transduction and hence in E. coli physiology. We here investigate the extent to which this enzyme also controls the growth rate,...
Energy buffering of DNA structure fails when Escherichia coli runs out of substrate.
Jensen, P R, Loman, L, Petra, B, Westerhoff, H V
To study how changes in the [ATP]/[ADP] ratio affect the level of DNA supercoiling in Escherichia coli, the cellular content of H(+)-ATPase was modulated around the wild-type level. A relatively...
Coupling of vectorial proton flow to a biochemical reaction by local electric interactions.
Kamp, F, Astumian, R D, Westerhoff, H V
For a transmembrane redox enzyme and a (passive) protonophore, the complete set of rate equations is given. Turnover causes cyclic variation of their electric polarization. This is responsible not...
Magainins and the disruption of membrane-linked free-energy transduction.
Westerhoff, H V, Juretić, D, Hendler, R W, Zasloff, M
Magainins, a family of positively charged peptides, are partly if not wholly responsible for antimicrobial activity in skin extracts of Xenopus laevis. We report here that members of the magainin...
Can free energy be transduced from electric noise?
Astumian, R D, Chock, P B, Tsong, T Y, Chen, Y D, Westerhoff, H V
Recently, it was shown that free energy can be transduced from a regularly oscillating electric field to do chemical or transport work when coupled through an enzyme with appropriate electrical...
Mosaic nonequilibrium thermodynamics describes biological energy transduction.
Westerhoff, H V, Hellingwerf, K J, Arents, J C, Scholte, B J, Van Dam, K
A procedure, called "mosaic nonequilibrium thermodynamics," for describing ion movement and energy transduction in biological membranes is tested in a model system: bacteriorhodopsin liposomes. The...
How enzymes can capture and transmit free energy from an oscillating electric field.
Westerhoff, H V, Tsong, T Y, Chock, P B, Chen, Y D, Astumian, R D
Recently, it has been demonstrated that free energy from an alternating electric field can drive the active transport of Rb+ by way of the Na+, K+-ATPase. In the present work, it is shown why many...
Stochastic free energy transduction.
Theoretical free-energy coupling systems in which the free energy coupling intermediate (e.g., the proton) occurs only in small numbers of molecules per coupling unit are shown to exhibit a number of...
Excess capacity of H(+)-ATPase and inverse respiratory control in Escherichia coli.
Jensen, P R, Westerhoff, H V, Michelsen, O
With succinate as free-energy source, Escherichia coli generating virtually all ATP by oxidative phosphorylation might be expected heavily to tax its ATP generating capacity. To examine this the...
Van Der Bend, R L, Petersen, J, Berden, J A, Van Dam, K, Westerhoff, H V
In intact systems (chloroplasts, mitochondria and bacteria) many experiments have been reported which are indicative of localized coupling between ATP synthase and electron transfer complexes. We...
De Jonge, P C, Westerhoff, H V
The maximum redox potential difference between the NAD+/NADH couple and the succinate/fumarate couple generated during ATP-energized reduction of NAD+ by succinate in submitochondrial particles was...
The hypothesis of localized chemiosmosis is unsatisfactory.
Westerhoff, H V, Simonetti, A L, Van Dam, K
The hypothesis of 'localized' chemiosmosis have been put to an experimental test in the system of oxidative phosphorylation by rat liver mitochondria. We find that the variation of the ratio of...
Jaggi, R, Van Heeswijk, W C, Westerhoff, H V, Ollis, D L, Vasudevan, S G
Adenylyl transferase (ATase) is the bifunctional effector enzyme in the nitrogen assimilation cascade that controls the activity of glutamine synthetase (GS) in Escherichia coli. This study addresses...
Kholodenko, B N, Westerhoff, H V, Cascante, M
This paper shows that metabolic channelling can provide a mechanism for decreasing the concentration of metabolites in the cytoplasm when cytosolic proteins become more concentrated. A dynamic...
Glucose and the ATP paradox in yeast.
Somsen, O J, Hoeben, M A, Esgalhado, E, Snoep, J L, Visser, D, Van Der Heijden, R T, ...
A sustained decrease in the intracellular ATP concentration has been observed when extra glucose was added to yeast cells growing aerobically under glucose limitation. Because glucose degradation is...
Linear nonequilibrium thermodynamics describes the dynamics of an autocatalytic system.
Cortassa, S, Aon, M A, Westerhoff, H V
A model simulating oscillations in glycolysis was formulated in terms of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In the kinetic rate equations every metabolite concentration was replaced with an exponential...
Redox interactions in cytochrome c oxidase: from the "neoclassical" toward "modern" models.
Because of recent experimental data on the redox characteristics of cytochrome c oxidase and renewed interest in the role of cooperativity in energy coupling, the question of redox cooperativity in...
How yeast cells synchronize their glycolytic oscillations: a perturbation analytic treatment.
Bier, M, Bakker, B M, Westerhoff, H V
Of all the lifeforms that obtain their energy from glycolysis, yeast cells are among the most basic. Under certain conditions the concentrations of the glycolytic intermediates in yeast cells can...
Transduction of intracellular and intercellular dynamics in yeast glycolytic oscillations.
Wolf, J, Passarge, J, Somsen, O J, Snoep, J L, Heinrich, R, Westerhoff, H V
Under certain well-defined conditions, a population of yeast cells exhibits glycolytic oscillations that synchronize through intercellular acetaldehyde. This implies that the dynamic phenomenon of...
Control of glycolytic dynamics by hexose transport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Reijenga, K A, Snoep, J L, Diderich, J A, Van Verseveld, H W, Westerhoff, H V, Teusink, B
It is becoming accepted that steady-state fluxes are not necessarily controlled by single rate-limiting steps. This leaves open the issue whether cellular dynamics are controlled by single pacemaker...
Control analysis of the dependence of Escherichia coli physiology on the H(+)-ATPase.
Jensen, P R, Michelsen, O, Westerhoff, H V
The H(+)-ATPase plays a central role in Escherichia coli free-energy transduction and hence in E. coli physiology. We here investigate the extent to which this enzyme also controls the growth rate,...
Energy buffering of DNA structure fails when Escherichia coli runs out of substrate.
Jensen, P R, Loman, L, Petra, B, Westerhoff, H V
To study how changes in the [ATP]/[ADP] ratio affect the level of DNA supercoiling in Escherichia coli, the cellular content of H(+)-ATPase was modulated around the wild-type level. A relatively...
Coupling of vectorial proton flow to a biochemical reaction by local electric interactions.
Kamp, F, Astumian, R D, Westerhoff, H V
For a transmembrane redox enzyme and a (passive) protonophore, the complete set of rate equations is given. Turnover causes cyclic variation of their electric polarization. This is responsible not...
Magainins and the disruption of membrane-linked free-energy transduction.
Westerhoff, H V, Juretić, D, Hendler, R W, Zasloff, M
Magainins, a family of positively charged peptides, are partly if not wholly responsible for antimicrobial activity in skin extracts of Xenopus laevis. We report here that members of the magainin...
Can free energy be transduced from electric noise?
Astumian, R D, Chock, P B, Tsong, T Y, Chen, Y D, Westerhoff, H V
Recently, it was shown that free energy can be transduced from a regularly oscillating electric field to do chemical or transport work when coupled through an enzyme with appropriate electrical...
Mosaic nonequilibrium thermodynamics describes biological energy transduction.
Westerhoff, H V, Hellingwerf, K J, Arents, J C, Scholte, B J, Van Dam, K
A procedure, called "mosaic nonequilibrium thermodynamics," for describing ion movement and energy transduction in biological membranes is tested in a model system: bacteriorhodopsin liposomes. The...
How enzymes can capture and transmit free energy from an oscillating electric field.
Westerhoff, H V, Tsong, T Y, Chock, P B, Chen, Y D, Astumian, R D
Recently, it has been demonstrated that free energy from an alternating electric field can drive the active transport of Rb+ by way of the Na+, K+-ATPase. In the present work, it is shown why many...
Stochastic free energy transduction.
Theoretical free-energy coupling systems in which the free energy coupling intermediate (e.g., the proton) occurs only in small numbers of molecules per coupling unit are shown to exhibit a number of...
Excess capacity of H(+)-ATPase and inverse respiratory control in Escherichia coli.
Jensen, P R, Westerhoff, H V, Michelsen, O
With succinate as free-energy source, Escherichia coli generating virtually all ATP by oxidative phosphorylation might be expected heavily to tax its ATP generating capacity. To examine this the...
Van Der Bend, R L, Petersen, J, Berden, J A, Van Dam, K, Westerhoff, H V
In intact systems (chloroplasts, mitochondria and bacteria) many experiments have been reported which are indicative of localized coupling between ATP synthase and electron transfer complexes. We...
De Jonge, P C, Westerhoff, H V
The maximum redox potential difference between the NAD+/NADH couple and the succinate/fumarate couple generated during ATP-energized reduction of NAD+ by succinate in submitochondrial particles was...
The hypothesis of localized chemiosmosis is unsatisfactory.
Westerhoff, H V, Simonetti, A L, Van Dam, K
The hypothesis of 'localized' chemiosmosis have been put to an experimental test in the system of oxidative phosphorylation by rat liver mitochondria. We find that the variation of the ratio of...
Jaggi, R, Van Heeswijk, W C, Westerhoff, H V, Ollis, D L, Vasudevan, S G
Adenylyl transferase (ATase) is the bifunctional effector enzyme in the nitrogen assimilation cascade that controls the activity of glutamine synthetase (GS) in Escherichia coli. This study addresses...
Kholodenko, B N, Westerhoff, H V, Cascante, M
This paper shows that metabolic channelling can provide a mechanism for decreasing the concentration of metabolites in the cytoplasm when cytosolic proteins become more concentrated. A dynamic...
Glucose and the ATP paradox in yeast.
Somsen, O J, Hoeben, M A, Esgalhado, E, Snoep, J L, Visser, D, Van Der Heijden, R T, ...
A sustained decrease in the intracellular ATP concentration has been observed when extra glucose was added to yeast cells growing aerobically under glucose limitation. Because glucose degradation is...
Linear nonequilibrium thermodynamics describes the dynamics of an autocatalytic system.
Cortassa, S, Aon, M A, Westerhoff, H V
A model simulating oscillations in glycolysis was formulated in terms of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In the kinetic rate equations every metabolite concentration was replaced with an exponential...
Redox interactions in cytochrome c oxidase: from the "neoclassical" toward "modern" models.
Because of recent experimental data on the redox characteristics of cytochrome c oxidase and renewed interest in the role of cooperativity in energy coupling, the question of redox cooperativity in...
How yeast cells synchronize their glycolytic oscillations: a perturbation analytic treatment.
Bier, M, Bakker, B M, Westerhoff, H V
Of all the lifeforms that obtain their energy from glycolysis, yeast cells are among the most basic. Under certain conditions the concentrations of the glycolytic intermediates in yeast cells can...
Transduction of intracellular and intercellular dynamics in yeast glycolytic oscillations.
Wolf, J, Passarge, J, Somsen, O J, Snoep, J L, Heinrich, R, Westerhoff, H V
Under certain well-defined conditions, a population of yeast cells exhibits glycolytic oscillations that synchronize through intercellular acetaldehyde. This implies that the dynamic phenomenon of...
Control of glycolytic dynamics by hexose transport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Reijenga, K A, Snoep, J L, Diderich, J A, Van Verseveld, H W, Westerhoff, H V, Teusink, B
It is becoming accepted that steady-state fluxes are not necessarily controlled by single rate-limiting steps. This leaves open the issue whether cellular dynamics are controlled by single pacemaker...
Approaches to Biosimulation of Cellular Processes
Bruggeman, F. J., Westerhoff, H. V.
Modelling and simulation are at the heart of the rapidly developing field of systems biology. This paper reviews various types of models, simulation methods, and theoretical approaches that are...