Mathematical modelling reveals unexpected inheritance and variability patterns of cell cycle parameters in mammalian cells

dc.citation.articleNumbere1007054en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber6en_US
dc.citation.journalTitlePLoS Computational Biologyen_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber15en_US
dc.contributor.authorMura, Marzenaen_US
dc.contributor.authorFeillet, Célineen_US
dc.contributor.authorBertolusso, Robertoen_US
dc.contributor.authorDelaunay, Francken_US
dc.contributor.authorKimmel, Mareken_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-22T16:19:55Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-11-22T16:19:55Zen_US
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractThe cell cycle is the fundamental process of cell populations, it is regulated by environmental cues and by intracellular checkpoints. Cell cycle variability in clonal cell population is caused by stochastic processes such as random partitioning of cellular components to progeny cells at division and random interactions among biomolecules in cells. One of the important biological questions is how the dynamics at the cell cycle scale, which is related to family dependencies between the cell and its descendants, affects cell population behavior in the long-run. We address this question using a “mechanistic” model, built based on observations of single cells over several cell generations, and then extrapolated in time. We used cell pedigree observations of NIH 3T3 cells including FUCCI markers, to determine patterns of inheritance of cell-cycle phase durations and single-cell protein dynamics. Based on that information we developed a hybrid mathematical model, involving bifurcating autoregression to describe stochasticity of partitioning and inheritance of cell-cycle-phase times, and an ordinary differential equation system to capture single-cell protein dynamics. Long-term simulations, concordant with in vitro experiments, demonstrated the model reproduced the main features of our data and had homeostatic properties. Moreover, heterogeneity of cell cycle may have important consequences during population development. We discovered an effect similar to genetic drift, amplified by family relationships among cells. In consequence, the progeny of a single cell with a short cell cycle time had a high probability of eventually dominating the population, due to the heritability of cell-cycle phases. Patterns of epigenetic heritability in proliferating cells are important for understanding long-term trends of cell populations which are either required to provide the influx of maturing cells (such as hematopoietic stem cells) or which started proliferating uncontrollably (such as cancer cells).en_US
dc.identifier.citationMura, Marzena, Feillet, Céline, Bertolusso, Roberto, et al.. "Mathematical modelling reveals unexpected inheritance and variability patterns of cell cycle parameters in mammalian cells." <i>PLoS Computational Biology,</i> 15, no. 6 (2019) Public Library of Science: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007054.en_US
dc.identifier.digitaljournal.pcbi.1007054en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007054en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/107716en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_US
dc.rightsThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en_US
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dc.titleMathematical modelling reveals unexpected inheritance and variability patterns of cell cycle parameters in mammalian cellsen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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