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空间划分提高了生化信号的可靠性

Spatial partitioning improves the reliability of biochemical signaling

Andrew Mugler, Filipe Tostevin, Pieter Rein ten Wolde

摘要:

空间异质性是生命系统的标志,即使在单个细胞的分子尺度上也是如此。一个关键的例子是通过脂质结构域形成或细胞因子诱导的畜栏的膜结合蛋白的分区。然而,这种空间异质性对生化信号传导过程的影响知之甚少。在这里,我们证明了分区提高了生物化学信号的可靠性。我们精确地解决了一个随机模型描述一个无处不在的模体在膜信号。该解决方案表明,分区通过两种效果提高了信号可靠性:它缓和了开关响应的非线性,并且它通过抑制分子之间的相关性来降低响应中的噪声。最佳分区大小产生于最小化每个分区的蛋白质数量以提高信号传导可靠性与确保每个分区足够的蛋白质以维持信号传播之间的权衡。预测的最佳分区大小同意定量与实验观察到的系统。这些结果坚持在空间模拟与明确的扩散障碍。我们的研究结果表明,分子分配不仅是细胞亚结构复杂性的结果,而且在细胞信号转导中起着重要的功能作用。

英文摘要:

Spatial heterogeneity is a hallmark of living systems, even at the molecular scale in individual cells. A key example is the partitioning of membrane-bound proteins via lipid domain formation or cytoskeleton-induced corralling. Yet the impact of this spatial heterogeneity on biochemical signaling processes is poorly understood. Here we demonstrate that partitioning improves the reliability of biochemical signaling. We exactly solve a stochastic model describing a ubiquitous motif in membrane signaling. The solution reveals that partitioning improves signaling reliability via two effects: it moderates the non-linearity of the switching response, and it reduces noise in the response by suppressing correlations between molecules. An optimal partition size arises from a trade-off between minimizing the number of proteins per partition to improve signaling reliability and ensuring sufficient proteins per partition to maintain signal propagation. The predicted optimal partition size agrees quantitatively with experimentally observed systems. These results persist in spatial simulations with explicit diffusion barriers. Our findings suggest that molecular partitioning is not merely a consequence of the complexity of cellular substructures, but also plays an important functional role in cell signaling.

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