Toric MESSI biological systems

Abstract

Many processes within cells involve some kind of post-translational modification of proteins. A subclass of these mechanisms which present modifications of type Enzyme-Substrate or Swap with Intermediates, has attracted considerable theoretical attention due to its abundance in nature and the special characteristics in the topologies. In my talk, I introduced a general framework for these biological systems, developed in joint work with Mercedes P´erez Millán, which we call MESSI networks.