Emergent Simplicities in Stochastic Intergenerational Homeostasis
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 20, 2023
How
do
complex
systems
maintain
key
emergent
“state
variables”
at
desired
target
values
to
within
specified
tolerances?
This
question
was
first
posed
in
the
context
of
homeostasis
living
over
a
century
ago,
and
yet
precise
quantitative
rules
governing
this
phenomenon
have
remained
fiercely
debated.
We
herein
present
direct
solution
through
synthesis
high-precision
experiments
principles-based
physics
theory.
After
introducing
general
approach
that
incorporates
inherently
stochastic
dynamic
nature
organismal
homeostasis,
we
provide
experimental
evidence
intergenerational
is
indeed
maintained.
Next,
identify
series
simplicities
hidden
these
data.
Remarkably,
dynamics
sizes
are
Markovian,
or
history-independent.
The
precision
data
reveal
an
scaling
law
fully
determines,
with
no
fine-tuning
parameters,
exact
map
as
borne
out
by
compelling
data–
theory
matches.
These
turn
yield
necessary
sufficient
condition
for
surprising
implications
architecture
underlying
control
system.
Validation
across
different
growth
conditions,
cell
morphologies,
modalities,
organisms
comprehensively
establishes
universality
results
presented
here.
Language: Английский
Coupling of cell growth modulation to asymmetric division and cell cycle regulation in Caulobacter crescentus
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
121(41)
Published: Oct. 3, 2024
In
proliferating
bacteria,
growth
rate
is
often
assumed
to
be
similar
between
daughter
cells.
However,
most
of
our
knowledge
cell
derives
from
studies
on
symmetrically
dividing
bacteria.
many
α-proteobacteria,
asymmetric
division
a
normal
part
the
life
cycle,
with
each
producing
cells
different
sizes
and
fates.
Here,
we
demonstrate
that
functionally
distinct
swarmer
stalked
produced
by
model
α-proteobacterium
Language: Английский
Architectural underpinnings of stochastic intergenerational homeostasis
Physical review. E,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
110(2)
Published: Aug. 27, 2024
Living
systems
are
naturally
complex
and
adaptive
offer
unique
insights
into
the
strategies
for
achieving
sustaining
stochastic
homeostasis
in
different
conditions.
Here
we
focus
on
context
of
growth
division
individual
bacterial
cells.
We
take
advantage
high-precision
long-term
dynamical
data
that
have
recently
been
used
to
extract
emergent
simplicities
articulate
empirical
intra-
intergenerational
scaling
laws
governing
these
dynamics.
From
data,
identify
core
motif
mechanistic
coupling
between
growth,
which
yields
precise
rules,
thus
also
bridging
phenomenologies.
By
developing
utilizing
techniques
solving
a
broad
class
first-passage
processes,
derive
exact
analytic
necessary
sufficient
condition
cell-size
within
this
framework.
Furthermore,
provide
predictions
precision
kinematics
shape
interdivision
time
distribution,
compellingly
borne
out
by
data.
Taken
together,
results
functional
architecture
control
yield
robust
yet
flexible
homeostasis.
Language: Английский