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大肠杆菌趋化性中蛋白质丰度的细胞反应仅部分形成细胞间差异

Cell responses only partially shape cell-to-cell variations in protein abundances in Escherichia coli chemotaxis

Sayak Mukherjee, Sang-Cheol Seok, Veronica J. Vieland, Jayajit Das

摘要:

克隆细胞群中蛋白质丰度的细胞间差异在生命系统中普遍存在。由于蛋白质组成决定了单个细胞的反应,因此这些变化本身受到选择压力的影响是理所当然的。但是这些细胞间差异的功能作用还没有得到很好的理解。解决形式和功能之间关系的一种方法是扰动形式(例如,改变蛋白质丰度)并观察某些功能的变化。在这里,我们采取的形式功能关系从相反的角度来看,而不是问什么特定的限制细胞间的蛋白质丰度的变化是由一个给定的功能表型。我们开发了一种基于最大熵(MaxEnt)的方法来提出这种类型的问题,并通过应用于大肠杆菌(E。coli)。我们发现,观察到的蛋白质丰度的细胞间变化的完全确定不是趋化性本身所固有的,但事实上似乎是由趋化性程序与其他因素联合施加的,例如,蛋白质合成机制和/或额外的非趋化性细胞功能如细胞代谢。这些结果说明了MaxEnt作为生物形式和功能之间关系的调查工具的力量。

英文摘要:

Cell-to-cell variations in protein abundance in clonal cell populations are ubiquitous in living systems. Since protein composition determines responses in individual cells, it stands to reason that the variations themselves are subject to selective pressures. But the functional role of these cell-to-cell differences is not well understood. One way to tackle questions regarding relationships between form and function is to perturb the form (e.g., change the protein abundances) and observe the resulting changes in some function. Here we take on the form-function relationship from the inverse perspective, asking instead what specific constraints on cell-to-cell variations in protein abundance are imposed by a given functional phenotype. We develop a maximum entropy (MaxEnt) based approach to posing questions of this type, and illustrate the method by application to the well characterized chemotactic response in Escherichia coli (E. coli). We find that full determination of observed cell-to-cell variations in protein abundances is not inherent in chemotaxis itself, but in fact appears to be jointly imposed by the chemotaxis program in conjunction with other factors, e.g., the protein synthesis machinery and/or additional non-chemotactic cell functions such as cell metabolism. These results illustrate the power of MaxEnt as a tool for the investigation of relationships between biological form and function.

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