hybrid modeling of cell signaling and transcriptional reprogramming and its application in c. elegans development

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2011
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Abstract
Modeling of signal driven transcriptional reprogramming is critical for understanding of organism development, human disease, and cell biology. Many current modeling techniques discount key features of the biological sub-systems when modeling multi-scale, organism level processes. We present a mechanistic hybrid model, GESSA, which integrates a novel pooled probabilistic Boolean network model of cell signaling and a stochastic simulation of transcription and translation responding to a diffusion model of extra-cellular signals. We apply the model to simulate the well studied cell fate decision process of the vulval precursor cells (VPCs) in C. elegans, using experimentally derived rate constants wherever possible and shared parameters to avoid overfitting. We demonstrate that GESSA recovers (1) the effects of varying scaffold protein concentration on signal strength, (2) amplification of signals in expression, (3) the relative external ligand concentration in a known geometry, and (4) feedback in biochemical networks. We demonstrate that setting model parameters based on wild-type and LIN-12 loss-of-function mutants in C. elegans leads to correct prediction of a wide variety of mutants including partial penetrance of phenotypes. Moreover, the model is relatively insensitive to parameters, retaining the wild-type phenotype for a wide range of cell signaling rate parameters.
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Authors ;Elana J Fertig;Ludmila V Danilova;Alexander V Favorov;Alexander V Favorov;Alexander V Favorov;Michael F Ochs;Michael F Ochs
Journal chemical record (new york, ny)
Year 2011
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10.3389/fgene.2011.00077
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http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2011.00077/full
Keywords
development cell signaling

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