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ArticleNature communications2021

A rationally engineered decoder of transient intracellular signals.

Claude Lormeau, Fabian Rudolf, Jörg Stelling

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Claude LormeauDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, ETH Zurich, Mattenstrasse 26, CH 4058, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8141-0532
Fabian RudolfDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, ETH Zurich, Mattenstrasse 26, CH 4058, Basel, Switzerland.
Jörg StellingDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, ETH Zurich, Mattenstrasse 26, CH 4058, Basel, Switzerland. joerg.stelling@bsse.ethz.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-1145-891X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cells can encode information about their environment by modulating signaling dynamics and responding accordingly. Yet, the mechanisms cells use to decode these dynamics remain unknown when cells respond exclusively to transient signals. Here, we approach design principles underlying such decoding by rationally engineering a synthetic short-pulse decoder in budding yeast. A computational method for rapid prototyping, TopoDesign, allowed us to explore 4122 possible circuit architectures, design targeted experiments, and then rationally select a single circuit for implementation. This circuit demonstrates short-pulse decoding through incoherent feedforward and positive feedback. We predict incoherent feedforward to be essential for decoding transient signals, thereby complementing proposed design principles of temporal filtering, the ability to respond to sustained signals, but not to transient signals. More generally, we anticipate TopoDesign to help designing other synthetic circuits with non-intuitive dynamics, simply by assembling available biological components.

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Computational BiologyGene Regulatory NetworksModels, BiologicalSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSignal TransductionSynthetic Biology

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PMID33767179
PMCPMC7994635

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