Publication Date:
2014-06-07
Description:
The gene regulatory circuitry through which pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells choose between self-renewal and differentiation appears vast and has yet to be distilled into an executive molecular program. We developed a data-constrained, computational approach to reduce complexity and to derive a set of functionally validated components and interaction combinations sufficient to explain observed ES cell behavior. This minimal set, the simplest version of which comprises only 16 interactions, 12 components, and three inputs, satisfies all prior specifications for self-renewal and furthermore predicts unknown and nonintuitive responses to compound genetic perturbations with an overall accuracy of 70%. We propose that propagation of ES cell identity is not determined by a vast interactome but rather can be explained by a relatively simple process of molecular computation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4257066/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4257066/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dunn, S-J -- Martello, G -- Yordanov, B -- Emmott, S -- Smith, A G -- 091484/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- G1100526/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G19/38/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- MC_PC_12009/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Jun 6;344(6188):1156-60. doi: 10.1126/science.1248882.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Computational Science Laboratory, Microsoft Research, Cambridge CB1 2FB, UK. ; Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QR, UK. graziano.martello@unipd.it austin.smith@cscr.cam.ac.uk. ; Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QR, UK. Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. graziano.martello@unipd.it austin.smith@cscr.cam.ac.uk.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24904165" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Cell Culture Techniques
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Computational Biology
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Embryonic Stem Cells/*metabolism
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*Gene Expression Regulation
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*Gene Regulatory Networks
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Mice
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Pluripotent Stem Cells/*metabolism
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Transcription Factors/genetics/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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