Abstract
Caulobacter crescentus is a model organism for the study of asymmetric division and cell type differentiation, as its cell division cycle generates a pair of daughter cells that differ from one another in their morphology and behavior. One of these cells (called stalked) develops a structure that allows it to attach to solid surfaces and is the only one capable of dividing, while the other (called swarmer) develops a flagellum that allows it to move in liquid media and divides only after differentiating into a stalked cell type. Although many genes, proteins, and other molecules involved in the asymmetric division exhibited by C. crescentus have been discovered and characterized for several decades, it remains as a challenging task to understand how cell properties arise from the high number of interactions between these molecular components. This chapter describes a modeling approach based on the Boolean logic framework that provides a means for the integration of knowledge and study of the emergence of asymmetric division. The text illustrates how the simulation of simple logic models gives valuable insight into the dynamic behavior of the regulatory and signaling networks driving the emergence of the phenotypes exhibited by C. crescentus. These models provide useful tools for the characterization and analysis of other complex biological networks.
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Abbreviations
- TF:
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Transcription Factor
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We thank the anonymous reviewer whose suggestions helped improve and clarify this manuscript and Claudine Chaouiya for critically reading the manuscript and helping with the submission of the model to the GINsim repository. We also thank Laura Carolina Diaz de León and Jaime Obeb Cervantes Pérez for their assistance with the edition of figures. IS-O and CAH-M thank the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT México) for postdoctoral and master fellowships, respectively.
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Sánchez-Osorio, I., Hernández-Martínez, C.A., Martínez-Antonio, A. (2017). Modeling Asymmetric Cell Division in Caulobacter crescentus Using a Boolean Logic Approach. In: Tassan, JP., Kubiak, J. (eds) Asymmetric Cell Division in Development, Differentiation and Cancer. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, vol 61. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53150-2_1
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