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ArticleeLife2024

A logic-incorporated gene regulatory network deciphers principles in cell fate decisions.

Gang Xue, Xiaoyi Zhang, Wanqi Li, Lu Zhang, Zongxu Zhang, Xiaolin Zhou, Di Zhang, Lei Zhang, Zhiyuan Li

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Article in eLife, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Gang XuePeking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4116-5819
Xiaoyi ZhangCenter for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7015-4158
Wanqi LiPeking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Lu ZhangCenter for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Zongxu ZhangCenter for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2909-5842
Xiaolin ZhouPeking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Di ZhangCenter for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Lei ZhangCenter for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9972-2051
Zhiyuan LiPeking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6662-2636

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China 2021YFA0910700National Key Research and Development Program of China 2021YFF1200500National Natural Science Foundation of China 12050002National Natural Science Foundation of China 12225102National Natural Science Foundation of China 12226316
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organisms utilize gene regulatory networks (GRN) to make fate decisions, but the regulatory mechanisms of transcription factors (TF) in GRNs are exceedingly intricate. A longstanding question in this field is how these tangled interactions synergistically contribute to decision-making procedures. To comprehensively understand the role of regulatory logic in cell fate decisions, we constructed a logic-incorporated GRN model and examined its behavior under two distinct driving forces (noise-driven and signal-driven). Under the noise-driven mode, we distilled the relationship among fate bias, regulatory logic, and noise profile. Under the signal-driven mode, we bridged regulatory logic and progression-accuracy trade-off, and uncovered distinctive trajectories of reprogramming influenced by logic motifs. In differentiation, we characterized a special logic-dependent priming stage by the solution landscape. Finally, we applied our findings to decipher three biological instances: hematopoiesis, embryogenesis, and trans-differentiation. Orthogonal to the classical analysis of expression profile, we harnessed noise patterns to construct the GRN corresponding to fate transition. Our work presents a generalizable framework for top-down fate-decision studies and a practical approach to the taxonomy of cell fate decisions.

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Cell DifferentiationGene Regulatory NetworksAnimalsCell TransdifferentiationEmbryonic DevelopmentHematopoiesisHumansTranscription FactorsTranscription Factorscell dynamicscell fate decisioncomputational biologydevelopmental biologydriving forcegene expression noisegene regulatory logicgene regulatory networkhumanmousesystems biology

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PMID38652107
PMCPMC11037919

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