Abstract
AbstractIn biological networks, steady state dynamics of cell-fate regulatory genes often exhibit Mushroom and Isola kind of bifurcations. How these complex bifurcations emerge for these complex networks, and what are the minimal network structures that can generate these bifurcations, remain elusive. Herein, by employing Waddington’s landscape theory and bifurcation analysis, we have shown that both Mushroom and Isola bifurcations can be realized with four minimal network motifs that are constituted by combining positive feedback motifs with different types of incoherent feedback motifs. Our study demonstrates that the intrinsic bi-stable dynamics due to the presence of the positive feedback motif can be fine-tuned by altering the extent of the incoherence of these proposed minimal networks to orchestrate these complex bifurcations. These modeling insights will be useful in identifying and analyzing possible network motifs that may give rise to either Mushroom or Isola bifurcation in other biological systems.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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2 articles.
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