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Marek Kimmel Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

Stochasticity in Signaling Pathways and Gene Regulation: The NF κ B Example and the Principle of Stochastic Robustness. Marek Kimmel Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. Rice University Pawel Paszek Roberto Bertolusso UTMB – Galveston Allan Brasier Bing Tian Politechnika Slaska

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Marek Kimmel Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

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  1. Stochasticity in Signaling Pathways and Gene Regulation: The NFκB Example and the Principle of Stochastic Robustness Marek Kimmel Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

  2. Rice University Pawel Paszek Roberto Bertolusso UTMB – Galveston Allan Brasier Bing Tian Politechnika Slaska Jaroslaw Smieja Krzysztof Fujarewicz Baylor College of Medicine Michael Mancini Adam Szafran Elizabeth Jones IPPT – Warsaw Tomasz Lipniacki Beata Hat Credits

  3. Gene regulation

  4. TNF Signaling Pathway Apoptosis Signal NF-kB AP-1 Inflammation Proliferation TNF

  5. Nuclear Factor-kB (NF-kB) • Inducible (cytoplasmic) transcription factor • Mediator of acute phase phase reactant transcription (angiotensinogen, SAA) • Mediator of cytokine and chemokine expression in pulmonary cytokine cascade • Plays role in anti-apoptosis and confering chemotherapy resistance in drug resistant cancers

  6. Nuclear factor-kB (NF-kB) Pathway TAK/TAB1 TRAF2/TRADD/RIP IKK TNF IkBa Rel A:NF-kB1 nucleus

  7. Rel A:NF-kB1 NF-kB “Activation” Activated IKK 2 nucleus

  8. TRAF1 RelB NF-kB1 A20 NF-kB2 IkBa IkBe TTP/Zf36 Negative autoregulation of the NF-kB pathway TNFR1 Rel A IKK Rel A C-Rel Rel A:NF-kB1 TNF mRNA nucleus

  9. Intrinsic sources of stochasticity • In bacteria, single-cell level stochasticity is quite well-recognized, since the number of mRNA or even protein of given type, per cell, might be small (1 gene, several mRNA, protein ~10) • Eukaryotic cells are much larger (1-2 genes, mRNA ~100, protein ~100,000), so the source of stochasticity is mainly the regulation of gene activity.

  10. Simplifiedschematic of gene expression • Regulatory proteins change gene status.

  11. Discrete Stochastic Model Time-continuous Markov chain with state space and transition intensities

  12. Continuous Approximation only gene on/off discrete stochastic

  13. Four single cell simulations

  14. Trajectories projected on (IB,NF-Bn,,time) space, red: 3 single cells, blue: cell population Any single cell trajectory differs from the “averaged” trajectory

  15. White et al. experiments

  16. What happens if the number of active receptors is small?

  17. Low dose responses

  18. How to find out if on/off transcrition stochasticity plays a role? • If on/off rapid enough, its influence on the system is damped • Recent photobleaching experiments→ TF turnover ~10 sec • However, does this quick turnover reflect duration of transcription “bursts”?

  19. FRAP (Mancini Lab)Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching

  20. The Model kB B ARE kdB f kN kdN N

  21. The Model • Fit the model to photobleaching data • Obtain estimates of binding constants of the factor • Invert binding constants to obtain mean residence times • Effect: ~10 seconds

  22. Estimation of mean times of transcription active/ inactive

  23. Estimation of mean times of transcription active/ inactive Transcription of the gene occurs in bursts, which are asynchronous in different cells.

  24. Estimation of mean times of transcription active/ inactive Parameters estimated by fitting the distribution of the level of nuclear message, apparently contradict photobleaching experiments.

  25. A single gene (one copy) using K-E approximation Amount of protein: • Where: • and are the constitutive activation and deactivation rates, respectively, • is an inducible activation rate due to the action of protein dimers.

  26. Deterministic description The system has one or two stable equilibrium points depending on the parameters.

  27. Transient probability density functions Stable deterministic solutions are at 0.07 and 0.63

  28. Transient probability density functions Stable deterministic solutions are at 0.07 and 0.63

  29. Transient probability density functions Stable deterministic solutions are at 0.07 and 0.63

  30. Transient probability density functions Stable deterministic solutions are at 0.07 and 0.63

  31. Conclusions from modeling • Stochastic event of gene activation results in a burst of mRNA molecules, each serving as a template for numerous protein molecules. • No single cell behaves like an average cell. • Decreasing magnitude of the signal below a threshold value lowers the probability of response but not its amplitude. • “Stochastic robustness” allows individual cells to respond differently to the same stimulus, but makes responses well-defined (proliferation vs. apoptopsis).

  32. References • Lipniacki T, Paszek P, Brasier AR, Luxon BA, Kimmel M. Stochastic regulation in early immune response. Biophys J. 2006 Feb 1;90(3):725-42. • Paszek P, Lipniacki T, Brasier AR, Tian B, Nowak DE, Kimmel M. Stochastic effects of multiple regulators on expression profiles in eukaryotes. J Theor Biol. 2005 Apr 7;233(3):423-33. • Lipniacki T, Paszek P, Brasier AR, Luxon B, Kimmel M. Mathematical model of NF-kappaB regulatory module. J Theor Biol. 2004 May 21;228(2):195-215.

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