Models

The model describes the electron transport chain (ETC) of Escherichia coli by ordinary differential equations. Also a simplified growth model based on an abstract reducing potential describing the balance of electron donor (glucose) and electron acceptors is coupled to the ETC. The model should reproduce and predict the regulation of the described system for different oxygen availability within the aerobiosis scale (glucose limited continuous culture<=>chemostat). Therefore oxygen is changed ...

Simplified model of the electron-transport chain(s) (ETC) of Escherichia coli and its regulation by ArcA and FNR. The goal is to demonstrate a hypothetical design principle in the regulatory structure (->partly qualitative parameter values). Oxygen is changed slowly (100% aerobiosis at 1000000 time units) thus the basis variable is not the time but the oxygen flux voxi.