Chapter title |
Modeling Asymmetric Cell Division in Caulobacter crescentus Using a Boolean Logic Approach.
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Chapter number | 1 |
Book title |
Asymmetric Cell Division in Development, Differentiation and Cancer
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Published in |
Results and problems in cell differentiation, April 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-53150-2_1 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-953149-6, 978-3-31-953150-2
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Authors |
Sánchez-Osorio, Ismael, Hernández-Martínez, Carlos A, Martínez-Antonio, Agustino, Ismael Sánchez-Osorio, Carlos A. Hernández-Martínez, Agustino Martínez-Antonio |
Editors |
Jean-Pierre Tassan, Jacek Z. Kubiak |
Abstract |
Caulobacter crescentus is a model organism for the study of asymmetric division and cell type differentiation, as its cell division cycle generates a pair of daughter cells that differ from one another in their morphology and behavior. One of these cells (called stalked) develops a structure that allows it to attach to solid surfaces and is the only one capable of dividing, while the other (called swarmer) develops a flagellum that allows it to move in liquid media and divides only after differentiating into a stalked cell type. Although many genes, proteins, and other molecules involved in the asymmetric division exhibited by C. crescentus have been discovered and characterized for several decades, it remains as a challenging task to understand how cell properties arise from the high number of interactions between these molecular components. This chapter describes a modeling approach based on the Boolean logic framework that provides a means for the integration of knowledge and study of the emergence of asymmetric division. The text illustrates how the simulation of simple logic models gives valuable insight into the dynamic behavior of the regulatory and signaling networks driving the emergence of the phenotypes exhibited by C. crescentus. These models provide useful tools for the characterization and analysis of other complex biological networks. |
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