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干细胞细胞分化过程中细胞命运决策机制的随机电路微扰法研究

Decoding the mechanisms underlying cell-fate decision-making during stem cell differentiation by Random Circuit Perturbation

Bin Huang, Mingyang Lu, Madeline Galbraith, Herbert Levine, Jose N. Onuchic, Dongya Jia

摘要:

干细胞可以精确和稳健地经历细胞分化和谱系定型,称为干细胞。然而,干细胞调控的基因网络如何可靠地指定细胞命运还没有得到很好的理解。为了解决这个问题,我们采用了最近开发的计算方法,随机电路扰动(RACIPE),九个组件的基因调控网络(GRN)管理的干,从中我们确定了15个强大的基因状态。其中,五个最可能的基因状态中的四个表现出在32细胞和64细胞阶段的单个小鼠胚胎细胞中观察到的基因表达模式。这些基因的状态可以鲁棒地预测的干性GRN,但不是由随机版本的干性GRN。引人注目的是,我们发现了GRN的层次结构,其中Oct 4/Cdx 2基序作为第一个决策模块,其次是Gata 6/Nanog。我们建议,干细胞群体,而不是被视为所有具有特定的细胞状态,可以被视为一个异质的混合物,包括在各种状态的细胞。在受到外部信号干扰时,干细胞失去进入某些细胞状态的能力,从而分化。研究结果表明,茎GRN的功能主要是由其良好的网络拓扑结构,而不是由详细的动力学参数。

英文摘要:

Stem cells can precisely and robustly undergo cellular differentiation and lineage commitment, referred to as stemness. However, how the gene network underlying stemness regulation reliably specifies cell fates is not well understood. To address this question, we applied a recently developed computational method, Random Circuit Perturbation (RACIPE), to a nine-component gene regulatory network (GRN) governing stemness, from which we identified fifteen robust gene states. Among them, four out of the five most probable gene states exhibit gene expression patterns observed in single mouse embryonic cells at 32-cell and 64-cell stages. These gene states can be robustly predicted by the stemness GRN but not by randomized versions of the stemness GRN. Strikingly, we found a hierarchical structure of the GRN with the Oct4/Cdx2 motif functioning as the first decision-making module followed by Gata6/Nanog. We propose that stem cell populations, instead of being viewed as all having a specific cellular state, can be regarded as a heterogeneous mixture including cells in various states. Upon perturbations by external signals, stem cells lose the capacity to access certain cellular states, thereby becoming differentiated. The findings demonstrate that the functions of the stemness GRN is mainly determined by its well-evolved network topology rather than by detailed kinetic parameters.

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