Systematic inference identifies a major source of heterogeneity in cell signaling dynamics: The rate-limiting step number

DW Kim, H Hong, JK Kim - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Identifying the sources of cell-to-cell variability in signaling dynamics is essential to
understand drug response variability and develop effective therapeutics. However, it is …

Nonmodular oscillator and switch based on RNA decay drive regeneration of multimodal gene expression

B Nordick, PY Yu, G Liao, T Hong - Nucleic Acids Research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Periodic gene expression dynamics are key to cell and organism physiology. Studies of
oscillatory expression have focused on networks with intuitive regulatory negative feedback …

Spatially coordinated collective phosphorylation filters spatiotemporal noises for precise circadian timekeeping

SJ Chae, DW Kim, S Lee, JK Kim - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
The circadian (∼ 24h) clock is based on a negative-feedback loop centered around the
PERIOD protein (PER), translated in the cytoplasm and then enters the nucleus to repress its …

Combined multiple transcriptional repression mechanisms generate ultrasensitivity and oscillations

EM Jeong, YM Song, JK Kim - Interface Focus, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Transcriptional repression can occur via various mechanisms, such as blocking,
sequestration and displacement. For instance, the repressors can hold the activators to …

Computational translation framework identifies biochemical reaction networks with special topologies and their long-term dynamics

H Hong, BS Hernandez, J Kim, JK Kim - SIAM Journal on Applied …, 2023 - SIAM
Long-term behaviors of biochemical systems are described by steady states in deterministic
models and stationary distributions in stochastic models. Obtaining their analytic solutions …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient and scalable prediction of stochastic reaction–diffusion processes using graph neural networks

Z Cao, R Chen, L Xu, X Zhou, X Fu, W Zhong… - Mathematical …, 2024 - Elsevier
The dynamics of locally interacting particles that are distributed in space give rise to a
multitude of complex behaviours. However the simulation of reaction–diffusion processes …

[HTML][HTML] Model reduction for the chemical master equation: an information-theoretic approach

K Öcal, G Sanguinetti, R Grima - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The complexity of mathematical models in biology has rendered model reduction an
essential tool in the quantitative biologist's toolkit. For stochastic reaction networks described …

Beyond homogeneity: Assessing the validity of the Michaelis–Menten rate law in spatially heterogeneous environments

S Shin, SJ Chae, S Lee, JK Kim - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The Michaelis–Menten (MM) rate law has been a fundamental tool in describing enzyme-
catalyzed reactions for over a century. When substrates and enzymes are homogeneously …

Coupled oscillator cooperativity as a control mechanism in chronobiology

MS Heltberg, Y Jiang, Y Fan, Z Zhang, MS Nordentoft… - Cell Systems, 2023 - cell.com
Control of dynamical processes is vital for maintaining correct cell regulation and cell-fate
decisions. Numerous regulatory networks show oscillatory behavior; however, our …

Validity conditions of approximations for a target-mediated drug disposition model: A novel first-order approximation and its comparison to other approximations

JH Byun, HS Jeon, H Yun, JK Kim - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Target-mediated drug disposition (TMDD) is a phenomenon characterized by a drug's high-
affinity binding to a target molecule, which significantly influences its pharmacokinetic profile …