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Alignment of Synchronized Time-Series Data Using the Characterizing Loss of Cell Cycle Synchrony Model for Cross-Experiment Comparisons
Published on: June 9, 2023
Periodic forcing of a mathematical model of the eukaryotic cell cycle
Dorjsuren Battogtokh1, John J Tyson
1Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106, USA. dbattogt@vt.edu
Abstract:
In a differential equation model of the molecular network governing cell growth and division, cell cycle phases and transitions through checkpoints are associated with certain bifurcations of the underlying vector field. If the cell cycle is driven by another rhythmic process, interactions between forcing and bifurcations lead to emergent orbits and oscillations. In this paper, by varying the amplitude and frequency of forcing of the synthesis rates of regulatory proteins and the mass growth rate in a minimal model of the eukaryotic cell cycle, we study changes of the probability distributions of interdivision time and mass at division. By computing numerically the Lyapunov exponent of the model, we show that the splitting of probability distributions is associated with mode-locked solutions. We also introduce a simple, integrate-and-fire model to analyze mode locking in the cell cycle.
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