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复杂生命过程中包含许多的生物化学反应,这些化学反应都具有潜在的随机性,在物理学中,通常用噪声来刻画这些随机性。经典的随机动力系统往往用高斯白噪声来刻画这些随机性。事实上,虽然相比系统自身的时间尺度而言,噪声的自关联时间很小,但是其始终恒大于零,这对系统的相变具有本质性的影响。因此,考虑噪声源的有限关联时间诱导系统的非平衡相变是合理的,考察ComK基因表达系统的动力学瞬态性质和稳态性质具有一定的探索和研究意义。
ComK基因作为枯草芽孢杆菌种群中的看家基因,包含自激活的正反馈环以及一个通过ComS基因介导的负反馈环,耦合调节ComK基因的表达。然而,正负反馈的耦合环路时刻受到外界噪声的刺激,形成内外共振的表达模式,诱导ComK基因表达过程具有自关联时间。据报道,噪声关联强度能够诱导基因表达系统的两种稳定状态在时间延迟下发生切换,增强其稳定性[1];噪声和交叉关联时间对随机系统的平稳特性有不同的影响[2];高斯有色噪声及交叉关联时间等随机效应能影响肿瘤免疫反应对化疗系统的稳定性,提高治疗率[3]。文献[4]研究了由乘性色噪声和加性色噪声共同驱动下具有强Allee效应和弱Allee效应的种群模型,对稳定和不稳定状态进行了生物学分析和解释。目前,相关文献均仅涉及色噪声及其交叉关联时间,而对色噪声和自关联时间协同作用下对系统的动力学特性方面的研究尚未见报道。因此,本研究观察ComK基因调控系统在色噪声强度和自关联时间诱导下的非平衡相变现象,着重考察色噪声诱导下基因调节系统的瞬态和稳态变化等的动力学性质,旨在揭示不同源噪声的时间关联性对系统稳态概率分布和平均首通时间的影响。
Kinetics of ComK Gene Expression Induced by Colored Noises in Bacillus subtilis
doi: 10.15886/j.cnki.rdswxb.2021.03.010
- Received Date: 2021-04-20
- Rev Recd Date: 2021-06-30
- Available Online: 2021-09-24
- Publish Date: 2021-10-11
Abstract: Bacillus subtilis contains coupled positive and negative feedback loops and senses environmental noise fluctuations through the signaling pathway of transcription factor ComK. Therefore, a study on the dynamics of ComK expression induced by noise intensity and autocorrelation time can effectively reveal the evolutionary process of B. subtilis. An attempt was made to analyze the phenomenon of protein concentration conversion induced by color noise in ComK expression system. According to Novikov theory and Fox approximation method, the approximate expression of the steady-state probability distribution function is given, and the approximate expression of the mean first passage time is calculated by using the steepest descent method. The effects of the noise intensity and the autocorrelation time of the multiplicative noise and additive noise on the steady-state probability distribution and the mean first passage time are analyzed. The results show that under different noise intensities of multiplicative noise and additive noise, the mean first passage time decreases with the increase of autocorrelation time, which indicates that the noise intensity and autocorrelation time will cause the protein concentration to go through the transition from “on” to “off ”.
Citation: | CHEN Leiyan, LIU Peijiang, WANG Haohua. Kinetics of ComK Gene Expression Induced by Colored Noises in Bacillus subtilis[J]. Journal of Tropical Biology, 2021, 12(3): 340-346. doi: 10.15886/j.cnki.rdswxb.2021.03.010 |