Transcriptional regulation of lineage commitment--a stochastic model of cell fate decisions.
Molecular mechanisms employed by individual multipotent cells at the point of lineage commitment remain largely uncharacterized. Current paradigms span from instructive to noise-driven mechanisms. Of considerable interest is also whether commitment involves a limited set of genes or the entire trans...
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| author | Jose Teles Cristina Pina Patrik Edén Mattias Ohlsson Tariq Enver Carsten Peterson |
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| description | Molecular mechanisms employed by individual multipotent cells at the point of lineage commitment remain largely uncharacterized. Current paradigms span from instructive to noise-driven mechanisms. Of considerable interest is also whether commitment involves a limited set of genes or the entire transcriptional program, and to what extent gene expression configures multiple trajectories into commitment. Importantly, the transient nature of the commitment transition confounds the experimental capture of committing cells. We develop a computational framework that simulates stochastic commitment events, and affords mechanistic exploration of the fate transition. We use a combined modeling approach guided by gene expression classifier methods that infers a time-series of stochastic commitment events from experimental growth characteristics and gene expression profiling of individual hematopoietic cells captured immediately before and after commitment. We define putative regulators of commitment and probabilistic rules of transition through machine learning methods, and employ clustering and correlation analyses to interrogate gene regulatory interactions in multipotent cells. Against this background, we develop a Monte Carlo time-series stochastic model of transcription where the parameters governing promoter status, mRNA production and mRNA decay in multipotent cells are fitted to experimental static gene expression distributions. Monte Carlo time is converted to physical time using cell culture kinetic data. Probability of commitment in time is a function of gene expression as defined by a logistic regression model obtained from experimental single-cell expression data. Our approach should be applicable to similar differentiating systems where single cell data is available. Within our system, we identify robust model solutions for the multipotent population within physiologically reasonable values and explore model predictions with regard to molecular scenarios of entry into commitment. The model suggests distinct dependencies of different commitment-associated genes on mRNA dynamics and promoter activity, which globally influence the probability of lineage commitment. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b294fb30456d41d09799d87937850e1b2025-08-20T02:22:38ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Computational Biology1553-734X1553-73582013-01-0198e100319710.1371/journal.pcbi.1003197Transcriptional regulation of lineage commitment--a stochastic model of cell fate decisions.Jose TelesCristina PinaPatrik EdénMattias OhlssonTariq EnverCarsten PetersonMolecular mechanisms employed by individual multipotent cells at the point of lineage commitment remain largely uncharacterized. Current paradigms span from instructive to noise-driven mechanisms. Of considerable interest is also whether commitment involves a limited set of genes or the entire transcriptional program, and to what extent gene expression configures multiple trajectories into commitment. Importantly, the transient nature of the commitment transition confounds the experimental capture of committing cells. We develop a computational framework that simulates stochastic commitment events, and affords mechanistic exploration of the fate transition. We use a combined modeling approach guided by gene expression classifier methods that infers a time-series of stochastic commitment events from experimental growth characteristics and gene expression profiling of individual hematopoietic cells captured immediately before and after commitment. We define putative regulators of commitment and probabilistic rules of transition through machine learning methods, and employ clustering and correlation analyses to interrogate gene regulatory interactions in multipotent cells. Against this background, we develop a Monte Carlo time-series stochastic model of transcription where the parameters governing promoter status, mRNA production and mRNA decay in multipotent cells are fitted to experimental static gene expression distributions. Monte Carlo time is converted to physical time using cell culture kinetic data. Probability of commitment in time is a function of gene expression as defined by a logistic regression model obtained from experimental single-cell expression data. Our approach should be applicable to similar differentiating systems where single cell data is available. Within our system, we identify robust model solutions for the multipotent population within physiologically reasonable values and explore model predictions with regard to molecular scenarios of entry into commitment. The model suggests distinct dependencies of different commitment-associated genes on mRNA dynamics and promoter activity, which globally influence the probability of lineage commitment.https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003197&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Jose Teles Cristina Pina Patrik Edén Mattias Ohlsson Tariq Enver Carsten Peterson Transcriptional regulation of lineage commitment--a stochastic model of cell fate decisions. PLoS Computational Biology |
| title | Transcriptional regulation of lineage commitment--a stochastic model of cell fate decisions. |
| title_full | Transcriptional regulation of lineage commitment--a stochastic model of cell fate decisions. |
| title_fullStr | Transcriptional regulation of lineage commitment--a stochastic model of cell fate decisions. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transcriptional regulation of lineage commitment--a stochastic model of cell fate decisions. |
| title_short | Transcriptional regulation of lineage commitment--a stochastic model of cell fate decisions. |
| title_sort | transcriptional regulation of lineage commitment a stochastic model of cell fate decisions |
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