Metabolic regulation of endothelial senescence

NT Le - Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Endothelial cell (EC) senescence is increasingly recognized as a significant contributor to
the development of vascular dysfunction and age-related disorders and diseases, including …

Concentration fluctuations in growing and dividing cells: Insights into the emergence of concentration homeostasis

C Jia, A Singh, R Grima - PLoS computational biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Intracellular reaction rates depend on concentrations and hence their levels are often
regulated. However classical models of stochastic gene expression lack a cell size …

Coupling gene expression dynamics to cell size dynamics and cell cycle events: Exact and approximate solutions of the extended telegraph model

C Jia, R Grima - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
The standard model describing the fluctuations of mRNA numbers in single cells is the
telegraph model which includes synthesis and degradation of mRNA, and switching of the …

Frequency domain analysis of fluctuations of mRNA and protein copy numbers within a cell lineage: theory and experimental validation

C Jia, R Grima - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
The stochasticity of gene expression is manifested in the fluctuations of messenger
ribonucleic acid and protein copy numbers within a cell lineage over time. While data of this …

Analytical time-dependent distributions for gene expression models with complex promoter switching mechanisms

C Jia, Y Li - SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2023 - SIAM
Classical gene expression models assume exponential switching time distributions between
the active and inactive promoter states. However, recent experiments have shown that many …

Poisson representation: a bridge between discrete and continuous models of stochastic gene regulatory networks

X Wang, Y Li, C Jia - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Stochastic gene expression dynamics can be modelled either discretely or continuously.
Previous studies have shown that the mRNA or protein number distributions of some simple …

Mechanisms of cell size regulation in slow-growing Escherichia coli cells: discriminating models beyond the adder

C Nieto, CA Vargas-García, JM Pedraza… - npj Systems Biology and …, 2024 - nature.com
Under ideal conditions, Escherichia coli cells divide after adding a fixed cell size, a strategy
known as the adder. This concept applies to various microbes and is often explained as the …

Quantitative Examination of Five Stochastic Cell-Cycle and Cell-Size Control Models for Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis

G Le Treut, F Si, D Li, S Jun - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We examine five quantitative models of the cell-cycle and cell-size control in Escherichia coli
and Bacillus subtilis that have been proposed over the last decade to explain single-cell …

Mitochondrial network structure controls cell-to-cell mtDNA variability generated by cell divisions

RC Glastad, IG Johnston - PLOS Computational Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles, containing vital populations of mitochondrial
DNA (mtDNA) distributed throughout the cell. Mitochondria form diverse physical structures …

Analytical cell size distribution: lineage-population bias and parameter inference

A Genthon - Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We derive analytical steady-state cell size distributions for size-controlled cells in single-
lineage experiments, such as the mother machine, which are fundamentally different from …