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Sáez, M., Briscoe, J. and Rand, D. A. (David A.) (2022) Dynamical landscapes of cell fate decisions. Interface Focus, 12 (4). 20220002. doi:10.1098/rsfs.2022.0002 ISSN 2042-8898.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2022.0002
Abstract
The generation of cellular diversity during development involves differentiating cells transitioning between discrete cell states. In the 1940s, the developmental biologist Conrad Waddington introduced a landscape metaphor to describe this process. The developmental path of a cell was pictured as a ball rolling through a terrain of branching valleys with cell fate decisions represented by the branch points at which the ball decides between one of two available valleys. Here we discuss progress in constructing quantitative dynamical models inspired by this view of cellular differentiation. We describe a framework based on catastrophe theory and dynamical systems methods that provides the foundations for quantitative geometric models of cellular differentiation. These models can be fit to experimental data and used to make quantitative predictions about cellular differentiation. The theory indicates that cell fate decisions can be described by a small number of decision structures, such that there are only two distinct ways in which cells make a binary choice between one of two fates. We discuss the biological relevance of these mechanisms and suggest the approach is broadly applicable for the quantitative analysis of differentiation dynamics and for determining principles of developmental decisions.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history | |||||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Mathematics | |||||||||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cell differentiation, Cell differentiation -- Mathematical models, Gene regulatory networks | |||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Interface Focus | |||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | The Royal Society Publishing | |||||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 2042-8898 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Official Date: | 10 June 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Number: | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Number of Pages: | 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Article Number: | 20220002 | |||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1098/rsfs.2022.0002 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 May 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 May 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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