Responses to auxin signals: an operating principle for dynamical sensitivity yet high resilience
S Grigolon1, B Bravi2, O C Martin3
1LPTMS, Université Paris-Sud XI-Université Paris-Saclay, 15, Rue Georges Clémenceau, 91405 Orsay, France.
Abstract:
Plants depend on the signalling of the phytohormone auxin for their development and for responding to environmental perturbations. The associated biomolecular signalling network involves a negative feedback on Aux/IAA proteins which mediate the influence of auxin (the signal) on the auxin response factor (ARF) transcription factors (the drivers of the response). To probe the role of this feedback, we consider alternative in silico signalling networks implementing different operating principles. By a comparative analysis, we find that the presence of a negative feedback allows the system to have a far larger sensitivity in its dynamical response to auxin and that this sensitivity does not prevent the system from being highly resilient. Given this insight, we build a new biomolecular signalling model for quantitatively describing such Aux/IAA and ARF responses.
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