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复制叉动力学对大肠杆菌细胞大小的影响

Effect of Replication Fork Dynamics on Escherichia coli Cell Size

Chaitanya A. Athale

摘要:

大肠杆菌等基因群体细胞大小的变异性在实验中已被广泛报道。细胞长度的概率密度函数(PDF)已被不同地描述为指数和对数正态函数。而温度、种群密度和生长速率都对E.大肠杆菌细胞大小分布,最近的模型已经证实了生长速率和细胞大小之间的联系,通过DNA复制,细胞大小的变化被认为是从生长速率的变化。一个可以区分随机性来源的机械联系,可以提高我们对细胞大小调节的理解。在这里,我们已经开发了一个种群动力学模型的基础上的BCD,出生,染色体复制和分裂模型的个人细胞分裂,与DNA复制的基础上库珀和Helmstetter(CH)多叉复制。在我们的模型中,模型中的随机性完全来自DNA复制叉的动力学。我们将分叉建模为两种状态的系统:停滞和恢复。我们的模型预测细胞大小的变化与增长率的增加,与以前的实验报告一致。我们扰动的模型,以测试增加复制叉(RF)失速频率的影响,或解耦RF失速从细胞分裂机器。事实上,尽管忽略了DNA和蛋白质分离的不对称性,该模型可以忠实地再现细胞大小分布的定量变化。在我们的模型中,多叉复制产生倍增的“噪音”,并提供了一个机制连接生长速度和细胞大小的变化。

英文摘要:

The variability in cell size of an isogenic population of Escherichia coli has been widely reported in experiment. The probability density function (PDF) of cell lengths has been variously described by exponential and lognormal functions. While temperature, population density and growth rate have all been shown to affect E. coli cell size distributions, and recent models have validated a link between growth rate and cell size through DNA replication, cell size variability is thought to emerge from growth rate variability. A mechanistic link that could distinguish the source of stochasticity, could improve our understanding of cell size regulation. Here, we have developed a population dynamics model of individual cell division based on the BCD, birth, chromosome replication and division model, with DNA replication based on the Cooper and Helmstetter (CH) multi-fork replication. In our model, stochasticity in the model arises solely from the dynamics of DNA replication forks. We model the forks as two-state systems: stalled and recovered. Our model predicts an increase in cell size variability with growth rate, consistent with previous experimental reports. We perturb the model to test the effect of increased replication fork (RF) stalling frequency, or uncoupling RF stalling from the cell-division machinery. Indeed, despite ignoring DNA and protein segregation asymmetry, the model can faithfully reproduce quantitative changes in cell size distributions. In our model, multi-fork replication produces multiplicative 'noise' and provides a mechanism linking growth rate and cell size variability.

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