Optogenetics and biosensors set the stage for metabolic cybergenetics

C Carrasco-López, SA García-Echauri, T Kichuk… - Current opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Metabolic cybergenetics promises unprecedented real-time control of
fermentations.•Optogenetic regulators make ideal actuators for metabolic cybergenetics.• …

Intermittent ERK oscillations downstream of FGF in mouse embryonic stem cells

D Raina, F Fabris, LG Morelli, C Schröter - Development, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Signal transduction networks generate characteristic dynamic activities to process
extracellular signals and guide cell fate decisions such as to divide or differentiate. The …

Stochastic models for single‐cell data: Current challenges and the way forward

IS Hsu, AM Moses - The FEBS Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Although the quantity and quality of single‐cell data have progressed rapidly, making
quantitative predictions with single‐cell stochastic models remains challenging. The …

Yeast cell fate control by temporal redundancy modulation of transcription factor paralogs

Y Wu, J Wu, M Deng, Y Lin - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Recent single-cell studies have revealed that yeast stress response involves transcription
factors that are activated in pulses. However, it remains unclear whether and how these …

Heavy-tailed distributions in a stochastic gene autoregulation model

P Bokes - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Synthesis of gene products in bursts of multiple molecular copies is an important source of
gene expression variability. This paper studies large deviations in a Markovian drift-jump …

Theory of time delayed genetic oscillations with external noisy regulation

J Negrete, IM Lengyel, L Rohde, RA Desai… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a general theory of noisy genetic oscillators with externally regulated production
rate and multiplicative noise. The observables that characterize the genetic oscillator are …

Filtering input fluctuations in intensity and in time underlies stochastic transcriptional pulses without feedback

AS Sassi, M Garcia-Alcala, MJ Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Stochastic pulsatile dynamics have been observed in an increasing number of biological
circuits with known mechanism involving feedback control and bistability. Surprisingly …

The multiple activations in budding yeast S-phase checkpoint are Poisson processes

X Gao, P Zhou, F Li - PNAS nexus, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Eukaryotic cells activate the S-phase checkpoint signal transduction pathway in response to
DNA replication stress. Affected by the noise in biochemical reactions, such activation …

Pulsatile signaling of bistable switches reveal the distinct nature of pulse processing by mutual activation and mutual inhibition loop

S Das, D Barik - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cells often encounter various external and internal signals in a non-sustained pulsatile
manner with varying amplitude, duration and residual value. However, the effect of signal …

Scaling laws of cell-fate responses to transient stress

D Labavić, MT Ladjimi, Q Thommen, B Pfeuty - Journal of Theoretical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Analysis and modelling of dose-survival curves of cells and tissues are often used
to assess therapeutic efficacy or environmental risks, much less to infer the intracellular …