ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2021
Scalable control of developmental timetables by epigenetic switching networks.
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- Cancer Genes: Origins and Directions.Viruses · 2026Review
- Coupling and decoupling of the cell cycle from cell differentiation in development.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2025Review
- A timed epigenetic switch balances T and ILC lineage proportions in the thymus.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- T-cell commitment inheritance-an agent-based multi-scale model.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2024Article
- Human neuronal maturation comes of age: cellular mechanisms and species differences.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2024Review
- T-cell commitment inheritance - an agent-based multi-scale model.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Old school, new rules: floral meristem development revealed by 3D gene expression atlases and high-resolution transcription factor-chromatin dynamics.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- A Liquid State Perspective on Dynamics of Chromatin Compartments.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021Review
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Abstract
During development, progenitor cells follow timetables for differentiation that span many cell generations. These developmental timetables are robustly encoded by the embryo, yet scalably adjustable by evolution, facilitating variation in organism size and form. Epigenetic switches, involving rate-limiting activation steps at regulatory gene loci, control gene activation timing in diverse contexts, and could profoundly impact the dynamics of gene regulatory networks controlling developmental lineage specification. Here, we develop a mathematical framework to model regulatory networks with genes controlled by epigenetic switches. Using this framework, we show that such epigenetic switching networks uphold developmental timetables that robustly span many cell generations, and enable the generation of differentiated cells in precisely defined numbers and fractions. Changes to epigenetic switching networks can readily alter the timing of developmental events within a timetable, or alter the overall speed at which timetables unfold, enabling scalable control over differentiated population sizes. With their robust, yet flexibly adjustable nature, epigenetic switching networks could represent central targets on which evolution acts to manufacture diversity in organism size and form.
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