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B Pfeuty¹, K Kaneko²

¹Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes, et Molécules, CNRS, UMR 8523, Université Lille 1, F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

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Biological systems make critical binary decisions in noisy environments. Oscillatory dynamics offer a robust and tunable mechanism for these cell-fate choices, outperforming other methods.

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Area of Science:

Systems Biology
Biophysics
Computational Biology

Background:

Biological systems frequently face binary decisions, like cell-fate determination, amidst dynamic and noisy conditions.
Two primary bifurcation mechanisms enable these decisions: transitions from monostability or oscillation to bistability.

Purpose of the Study:

To compare the efficacy of monostability-to-bistability and oscillation-to-bistability mechanisms in biological decision-making.
To analyze how noise and signal timing affect decision sensitivity in these systems.

Main Methods:

Utilized stochastic models incorporating time-varying fields to simulate biological decision processes.
Derived asymptotic formulas to quantify choice probabilities under different conditions.
Investigated the scaling laws of decision sensitivity concerning noise strength and signal timescale.

Main Results:

Identified distinct scaling laws for decision sensitivity based on the bifurcation mechanism.
Demonstrated that oscillatory dynamics provide enhanced noise robustness and temporal tunability for binary decisions.
Found that oscillatory protein expression patterns often precede binary cell-fate decisions.

Conclusions:

Oscillatory dynamics represent a superior mechanism for robust and temporally tunable binary decision-making in biological systems.
The findings provide a theoretical basis for observed experimental evidence linking protein oscillations to cell-fate determination.
This research offers insights into the fundamental principles governing cellular responses in fluctuating environments.