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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2020

Regulatory Dynamics of Cell Differentiation Revealed by True Time Series From Multinucleate Single Cells.

Anna Pretschner, Sophie Pabel, Markus Haas, Monika Heiner, Wolfgang Marwan

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2020. 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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5 authors.

Anna PretschnerMagdeburg Centre for Systems Biology and Institute of Biology, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Sophie PabelMagdeburg Centre for Systems Biology and Institute of Biology, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Markus HaasMagdeburg Centre for Systems Biology and Institute of Biology, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Monika HeinerComputer Science Institute, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany.
Wolfgang MarwanMagdeburg Centre for Systems Biology and Institute of Biology, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dynamics of cell fate decisions are commonly investigated by inferring temporal sequences of gene expression states by assembling snapshots of individual cells where each cell is measured once. Ordering cells according to minimal differences in expression patterns and assuming that differentiation occurs by a sequence of irreversible steps, yields unidirectional, eventually branching Markov chains with a single source node. In an alternative approach, we used multi-nucleate cells to follow gene expression taking true time series. Assembling state machines, each made from single-cell trajectories, gives a network of highly structured Markov chains of states with different source and sink nodes including cycles, revealing essential information on the dynamics of regulatory events. We argue that the obtained networks depict aspects of the Waddington landscape of cell differentiation and characterize them as reachability graphs that provide the basis for the reconstruction of the underlying gene regulatory network.

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gene regulatory networkMarkov chainPetri netsingle cell time seriessystems biologyWaddington landscape

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PMID33488676
PMCPMC7820898

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