What is it about?
The paper is about the occurrence of chaos in the peroxidase-oxidase reaction, which is the oxidation of molecular oxygen by reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH), catalyzed by peroxidase. Such behavior was predicted by simple biochemical models developed by Otto E. Rössler in 1976.
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Why is it important?
This reaction is the first experimental (bio)chemical system to show chaos. The reaction system is important because the fact that such a simple biochemical system shows such complex dynamic behavior suggests that chaos may play important roles in the complex metabolic and signaling pathways in the cell.
Perspectives
The paper is part of a Focus Issue in the journal Chaos to celebrate the 80th birthday of Otto E. Rössler. It was a pleasure and a privilege to contribute this paper to a Festschrift for an eminent scientist.
Lars Folke Olsen
Syddansk Universitet
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This page is a summary of: Chaos in the peroxidase–oxidase oscillator, Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, January 2021, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0022251.
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