Fluorescent biosensors illuminate the spatial regulation of cell signaling across scales

AC Lyons, S Mehta, J Zhang - Biochemical Journal, 2023 - portlandpress.com
As cell signaling research has advanced, it has become clearer that signal transduction has
complex spatiotemporal regulation that goes beyond foundational linear transduction …

Soluble cyclase-mediated nuclear cAMP synthesis is sufficient for cell proliferation

A Pizzoni, X Zhang, N Naim… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
cAMP, a key player in many physiological processes, was classically considered to originate
solely from the plasma membrane (PM). This view was recently challenged by observations …

Information transmission from NFkB signaling dynamics to gene expression

A Maity, R Wollman - PLoS computational biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The dynamic signal encoding paradigm suggests that information flows from the
extracellular environment into specific signaling patterns (encoding) that are then read by …

Identifying stochastic oscillations in single-cell live imaging time series using Gaussian processes

NE Phillips, C Manning, N Papalopulu… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Multiple biological processes are driven by oscillatory gene expression at different time
scales. Pulsatile dynamics are thought to be widespread, and single-cell live imaging of …

CSI-independent non-linear signal detection in molecular communications

B Li, W Guo, X Wang, Y Deng, Y Lan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Molecular communications rely on diffusive propagation to transport information, which is
attractive for a variety of nano-scale applications. Due to the long-tail channel response …

Know the single-receptor sensing limit? Think again

G Aquino, NS Wingreen, RG Endres - Journal of statistical physics, 2016 - Springer
How cells reliably infer information about their environment is a fundamentally important
question. While sensing and signaling generally start with cell-surface receptors, the degree …

Processing oscillatory signals by incoherent feedforward loops

C Zhang, R Tsoi, F Wu, L You - PLoS computational biology, 2016 - journals.plos.org
From the timing of amoeba development to the maintenance of stem cell pluripotency, many
biological signaling pathways exhibit the ability to differentiate between pulsatile and …

Modeling cellular regulation by pulsatile inputs

R Martinez-Corral, J Garcia-Ojalvo - Current Opinion in Systems Biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Pulsatile inputs regulate a wide range of cellular processes.•Responses to
pulsatile regimes depend on network circuitry and kinetic parameters.•Mathematical models …

Diversity-Based Non-Coherent Signal Detector for Molecular Communication via Reaction-Diffusion

Z Lin, B Li, Z Wei, Y Huang, W Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Molecular communication is attractive to the emerging nano-scale communication systems.
Traditionally, a detector recovers the information from only the concentration of single …

Oscillatory ERK signaling and morphology determine heterogeneity of breast cancer cell chemotaxis via MEK-ERK and p38-MAPK signaling pathways

KKY Ho, S Srivastava, PC Kinnunen, K Garikipati… - Bioengineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chemotaxis, regulated by oscillatory signals, drives critical processes in cancer metastasis.
Crucial chemoattractant molecules in breast cancer, CXCL12 and EGF, drive the activation …