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JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH
Volume 47, Issue 11, Pages 2355-2366Publisher
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DOI: 10.1194/jlr.R600023-JLR200
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mitochondria; glycolysis; glycogenolysis; energy channeling; compartmentalization; heart; ischemia; cardioprotection; systems biology; dynamics
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In this review, we examine cardiovascular metabolism from three different, but highly complementary, perspectives. First, from the abstract perspective of a metabolite network, composed of nodes and links. We present fundamental concepts in network theory, including emergence, to illustrate how nature has designed metabolism with a hierarchal modular scale-free topology to provide a robust system of energy delivery. Second, from the physical perspective of a modular spatially compartmentalized network. We review evidence that cardiovascular metabolism is functionally compartmentalized, such that oxidative phosphorylation, glycolysis, and glycogenolysis preferentially channel ATP to ATPases in different cellular compartments, using creatine kinase and adenylate kinase to maximize efficient energy delivery. Third, from the dynamics perspective, as a network of dynamically interactive metabolic modules capable of self-oscillation. Whereas normally, cardiac metabolism exists in a regime in which excitation-metabolism coupling closely matches energy supply and demand, we describe how under stressful conditions, the network can be pushed into a qualitatively new dynamic regime, manifested as cell-wide oscillations in ATP levels, in which the coordination between energy supply and demand is lost. We speculate how this state of metabolic fibrillation leads to cell death if not corrected and discuss the implications for cardioprotection.
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