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ArticleNucleic acids research2022

Nonmodular oscillator and switch based on RNA decay drive regeneration of multimodal gene expression.

Benjamin Nordick, Polly Y Yu, Guangyuan Liao, Tian Hong

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Benjamin NordickSchool of Genome Science and Technology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916, USA.
Polly Y YuNSF-Simons Center for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Guangyuan LiaoDepartment of Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916, USA.
Tian HongDepartment of Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8212-7050
University of Tennessee at Knoxville · USHarvard University · USNational Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis · US

Funding

Mathametical modeling of cell fate transitions regulated by ultra-feedbacksR01GM140462 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE · PI HONG, TIAN · 2020 to 2022
$600k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM140462
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Periodic gene expression dynamics are key to cell and organism physiology. Studies of oscillatory expression have focused on networks with intuitive regulatory negative feedback loops, leaving unknown whether other common biochemical reactions can produce oscillations. Oscillation and noise have been proposed to support mammalian progenitor cells' capacity to restore heterogenous, multimodal expression from extreme subpopulations, but underlying networks and specific roles of noise remained elusive. We use mass-action-based models to show that regulated RNA degradation involving as few as two RNA species-applicable to nearly half of human protein-coding genes-can generate sustained oscillations without explicit feedback. Diverging oscillation periods synergize with noise to robustly restore cell populations' bimodal expression on timescales of days. The global bifurcation organizing this divergence relies on an oscillator and bistable switch which cannot be decomposed into two structural modules. Our work reveals surprisingly rich dynamics of post-transcriptional reactions and a potentially widespread mechanism underlying development, tissue regeneration, and cancer cell heterogeneity.

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Feedback, PhysiologicalRNA StabilityAnimalsFeedbackGene ExpressionGene Regulatory NetworksHumansMammalsModels, Biological

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PMID35380686
PMCPMC9023291
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