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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2019

Interlinked GTPase cascades provide a motif for both robust switches and oscillators.

Andreas Ehrmann, Basile Nguyen, Udo Seifert

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Interlinked switch circuits of biological intelligence.Trends in biochemical sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andreas EhrmannII. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany.
Basile NguyenII. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany.
Udo SeifertII. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany.
University of Stuttgart · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

GTPases regulate a wide range of cellular processes, such as intracellular vesicular transport, signal transduction and protein translation. These hydrolase enzymes operate as biochemical switches by toggling between an active guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-bound state and an inactive guanosine diphosphate (GDP)-bound state. We compare two network motifs, a single-species switch and an interlinked cascade that consists of two species coupled through positive and negative feedback loops. We find that interlinked cascades are closer to the ideal all-or-none switch and are more robust against fluctuating signals. While the single-species switch can only achieve bistability, interlinked cascades can be converted into oscillators by tuning the cofactor concentrations, which catalyse the activity of the cascade. These regimes can only be achieved with sufficient chemical driving provided by GTP hydrolysis. In this study, we present a thermodynamically consistent model that can achieve bistability and oscillations with the same feedback motif.

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Models, BiologicalAnimalsGene Regulatory NetworksGTP PhosphohydrolasesGuanosine TriphosphateSignal TransductionThermodynamicsGTP PhosphohydrolasesGuanosine Triphosphatebistabilitynon-equilibrium thermodynamicsoscillationssignalling pathwayssmall GTPases

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PMID31387482
PMCPMC6731501
OpenAlexW2966767778

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